His Teacher Told Him He Wouldn't Go To College, Then He Did
African-American students with disabilities are disciplined far more and graduate far less than their counterparts, researchers say. What needs to change to help more succeed?
One day Ronnie Sidney, from Tappahannock, Va., was goofing off with his classmates in math when one of them threw a football at the board — and it landed a little too close to the teacher. Sidney says the ninth-grade teacher, visibly frustrated, turned around and said, " 'None of you are going to college.' "
That was a pivotal moment for Sidney. Not only did he feel diagnosed with ADHD, Sidney says he'd also felt discriminated against in school as
