ERIC Number: EJ1466434
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Publication Date: 2025-Mar
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ISSN: ISSN-1746-1979
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#BlackatCMO: Challenging Charter Schools through Youth Instagram Counterstories
Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, v20 n1 p93-106 2025
As protests flared in 2020, Black students took to Instagram to voice their experiences at 'no-excuses' Charter Management Organizations (CMOs). Such schools have presented a discourse of high achievement and social justice. Yet, in the span of a few weeks, hundreds of posts on Instagram offered rarely heard counter-narratives of the experience of being a student of Color at such schools. This paper analyzes how social media posts combine online discourse and youth culture to provide insight into the racialized experience of schooling. We show how these posts created distinct visual signatures, co-opted the well-crafted narratives of CMOs, and took advantage of features like comments and hashtags to foster solidarity and authenticity. We argue this social movement challenges the legitimacy of CMOs and their authority to teach children of Color.
Descriptors: African American Students, Charter Schools, School Administration, Social Media, Discourse Analysis, Critical Race Theory, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Experience, Racism, Affordances, Discipline, Zero Tolerance Policy
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Author Affiliations: 1Portland State University, USA; 2University of Vermont, USA