According to Ferguson, how do

assumptions about individuals based

on their identity markers impact the
way that Black boys are viewed at
Rosa Parks School?

 What does Ferguson mean when she

says that Black youth are adultified?
How does this adultification impact
elementary school children are talked
about by school adults?

 How did adults in Fergusons study

view African American girls?

 Why does Ferguson argue that

schools teach Black boys to endure
humiliation and learn to be
submissive?

 How does holding an at-risk label

impact the way a child is viewed and
treated in the classroom?

 What does this research seem to

leave absent or missing?

 How does this type of research

impact the way you operate in the
classroom?

 How might we combat this type of

thinking in our practice?