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Why aren’t there more black developers?I think a lot of this has to do with what part of the country you live in (assuming the OP is in America)For instance, the number of Black software engineers that I encounter in Atlanta, GA has dramatically increased during the course of my almost 20 years in the field.Now, I have worked at a few companies where almost half of the developers were Black. Of course, I have worked at many more companies were I was the sole Black developer. But still… I’m seeing progress.But to answer the question more directly, one of the things that we have to remember is that American schools weren’t desegregated until 1964. But of course, that was just a law that was passed. It took many many years for this to happen in actuality.Consider this timeline for a moment1963 62% of Americans — 73% of Northerners and 31% of Southerners — believe Blacks and Whites should attend the same schools.Two African American students, Vivian Malone and James A. Hood, successfully register at the University of Alabama despite George Wallace's "stand in the schoolhouse door" — but only after President Kennedy federalizes the Alabama National Guard.For the first time, a small number of black students in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Mississippi attend public elementary and secondary schools with white students.1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is adopted. Title IV of the Act authorizes the federal government to file school desegregation cases. Title VI of the Act prohibits discrimination in programs and activities, including schools, receiving federal financial assistance.The Rev. Bruce Klunder is killed protesting the construction of a new segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.1968 The Supreme Court orders states to dismantle segregated school systems "root and branch." The Court identifies five factors — facilities, staff, faculty, extracurricular activities and transportation — to be used to gauge a school system's compliance with the mandate of Brown. (Green v. County School Board of New Kent County)In a private note to Justice Brennan, Justice Warren writes: "When this opinion is handed down, the traffic light will have changed from Brown to Green. Amen!"1969 The Supreme Court declares the "all deliberate speed" standard is no longer constitutionally permissible and orders the immediate desegregation of Mississippi schools. (Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education)1971 The Court approves busing, magnet schools, compensatory education and other tools as appropriate remedies to overcome the role of residential segregation in perpetuating racially segregated schools. (Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education)1972 The Supreme Court refuses to allow public school systems to avoid desegregation by creating new, mostly or all-white "splinter districts." (Wright v. Council of the City of Emporia; United States v. Scotland Neck City Board of Education)Brown's legacy extends to gender. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is passed prohibiting sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal financial assistance.1973 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act is passed prohibiting schools from discriminating against students with mental or physical impairments.The Supreme Court rules that states cannot provide textbooks to racially segregated private schools to avoid integration mandates. (Norwood v. Harrison)The Supreme Court finds that the Denver school board intentionally segregated Mexican American and black students from white students. (Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1)The Court distinguishes between state-mandated segregation (de jure) and segregation that is the result of private choices (de facto). The latter form of segregation, the Court rules, is not unconstitutionalThe Supreme Court rules that education is not a "fundamental right" and that the Constitution does not require equal education expenditures within a state. (San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez) The ruling has the effect of locking minority and poor children who live in low-income areas into inferior schools.1974 The Supreme Court blocks metropolitan-wide desegregation plans as a means to desegregate urban schools with high minority populations. (Milliken v. Bradley) As a result, Brown will not have a substantial impact on many racially isolated urban districts.Non-English-speaking Chinese students file suit against the San Francisco Unified School District for failing to provide instruction to those with limited English proficiency. The Supreme Court rules that the failure to do so violates Title VI's prohibition of national origin, race or color discrimination in school districts receiving federal funds. (Lau v. Nichols)1978 A fractured Supreme Court declares the affirmative action admissions program for the University of California Davis Medical School unconstitutional because it set aside a specific number of seats for black and Latino students. The Court rules that race can be a factor in university admissions, but it cannot be the deciding factor. (Regents of the University of California v. Bakke)1982 The Supreme Court rejects tax exemptions for private religious schools that discriminate. (Bob Jones University v. U.S.; Goldboro Christian Schools v. U.S.)1986 For the first time, a federal court finds that once a school district meets the Greenfactors, it can be released from its desegregation plan and returned to local control. (Riddick v. School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia)1988 School integration reaches its all-time high; almost 45% of black students in the United States are attending majority-white schools.Look at all the turmoil going on with school desegregation in the 1970s.While people were still fighting over this, Black people were still attending schools that were under-funded and giving sub-par education. This was a known issue. The Black schools had outdated books, didn’t have funding for technology related course or the teachers to teach them.So this negates damn near every person of color from the technology industry for anyone in their late 30s on up. Most of the people you find in the field within these age groups were either.Able to live in a mixed communityIn the militaryHad a parent who got into the field because they were in the militaryHad fairly wealthy parentsI was personally lucky enough to have a father who worked on missile guidance systems in the Air Force, moved on to work at Burroughs corporation/Unisys and later started his own business that was technology related.Because I certainly didn’t learn anything in middle or high school that would’ve led me into this field.As an example. My middle school technology courses involved learning how to use a type writer. In high school, I learned about the history of computers and how to play games (not make them) on their outdated computers (of course, I knew this already… so I learned nothing). Oh, and we learned how to use WordStar & WordPerfect and how to make a resume.Nothing about building or repairing a computer and certainly nothing about programming one.And I took every tech course available to me at those schools.But at the house, we had several computers that my brother and I personally built; and a training facility my father owned (to train his clients) with another 30 computers to play with.I learned how to build web sites and desktop apps for some of our clients.That’s what started me on this path.How many Black people would you imagine were this lucky? Not many.So the number of Black developers my age or older is actually very impressive, when you consider what they had to go through to get to this point.And I’m seeing more and more young Black developers each year.Thanks for the A2A.

Immediately upon returning home from school, my daughter told me that the P.E. teacher forced my child (of 7 or 8 then) to continue to participate in a p.e. exercise that involved running even after she had shortness of breath due to exercise induced asthma and asked the teacher to let her stop running and sit down. The school was informed of her condition for which she took a twice daily cortical steroid dose. The school kept her extra rescue inhaler in the office or nurse’s office (they are side-by-side with no complete divider between them). The staff said that the signed letter from her physician was from the previous school year so not good enough / valid for that current school year.I told my daughter to never listen to that P.E. teacher if he tries that again not to listen to any teacher that puts you in danger; I’ll call the school now and get this straightened out.I did call the school immediately upon hearing of the problem and I followed up the next day with a visit to the school secretary, nurse and principal. I listened to their explanation first. They were not apologetic. I was not aggressive nor mean in my tone when I gave them some admonishing words of common sense that meant, ‘do not let my child or any other child die because of foolishness.’ I also told them that my child will not nor shall not obey a teacher who is in the wrong and putting her in danger if I, her father, tell her that it is wrong. The school is there to help my child and not to be the parent of my child. The school said that the teacher did not know because he had no notice that a medical restriction was in place for my child. The office did not input nor convey the information because the previous doctor’s letter was no longer valid. So the teacher did not use common sense [updated information or not] to listen to my child who was never a troublemaker nor a liar. The office had failed to inform me that a new form with the doctor’s signature must be signed yearly.Had my daughter needed to go to the hospital I definitely would have filed a lawsuit or a class action suit, even though I work for that school district. A lawsuit surely would have cost me my job.

Call the Princpal and have you and your husband go in or you and another family member. I’ve done it. It did no good but you can try.As a parent in a wealthy school district where both parents often have advanced degrees, I found public school to be incredibly invasive. My son, who we didn’t know was very early onset schizophrenia was actually delayed in getting his diagnosis because the school district has a policy of never allowing teachers to fill out their half of the psych evaluation forms. We made it through Kindergarten with the first year teacher bringing in a Special Ed teacher for the December parent teacher conference. I asked why and the teacher told me my son didn’t know all his letter sounds. I started laughing and told her I didn’t know what planet she was on, but he went to three years of Montessori pre-school and knew all his letters and sounds at 3.5. In fact, he could actually READ! The teacher then proceeded to tell me “I probably ruined him” from ever learning to read correctly. I laughed and laughed, told her it wasn’t witchcraft, it was just phonics.By First Grade, (first year teacher again) they were getting much more invasive. I sent in the usual permission form saying that the school could contact son’s doctor for emergency purposes but school nurse lied and said they couldn’t find it. She sends a form home giving the school district permission to obtain my son’s medical records from his pediatrician AND any other doctor mentioned in her notes. As a doctor, there was no way I was giving them his private medical information. Why? For the same reason I wouldn’t give them my tax information. IT’S PRIVATE and none of their darn business. Son tests out for gifted program but they tell me they won’t put him in it even though they test him reading at a 5th grade level. (Remember it was me that taught him to read LOL) The final straw was the school counselor calling me on the phone and saying, “If you won’t tell me your son’s diagnosis from his psychiatric evaluation, I’m going to label him and stick him in Special School District.” I gave her my, “That’s so f ing hysterical crazy laugh” and laughed till I was in tears and gasping for air, which made her so pissed. When she demanded to know why I was laughing, I told her because I’m a doctor and that information is private, and if they wanted to participate in knowing his diagnosis, they should have filled out the form to help him be diagnosed correctly.Next day, personally took in his letter of withdrawal to homeschool him. NEVER in my life thought I’d homeschool, but schools and teachers are out of control. I don’t care what you think about how it’s your job to butt your nose in. It’s your job to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, and nothing else. Turned out my children learned twice as much homeschooling as they ever would have in public school. Teachers get angry that people homeschool but every family I knew that homeschooled had horror stories about public school. The rate of homeschooling is doubling, I think it’s every seven years. My advice…Order the book, “The Well Trained Mind” from Amazon, then order the catalog from “Rainbow Resource Center” with both you can homeschool your child for an Ivy League Education and both of you will have more fun doing it. There’s a new path to Harvard and it’s not in a classroom