From their earliest days in schooling, Black students’ experiences in schools are dramatically different from those of white students. For example, Black preschool children are 3.6 times as likely to receive out-of-school suspensions as white preschool children (U.S. Department of Education, 2016). The disciplinary disparities continue in K-12: 6% of all K-12 students received one or more suspensions, but look at the breakdown: 18% for Black boys, 10% for Black girls, 5% for white boys, and 2% for white girls (U.S. Department of Education, 2016). Inequities for Black students extend well beyond discipline. Black students’ access to advanced coursework, for example, is disproportionately lower than their white peers, beginning at an early age and continuing through high school (The Education Trust, 2020). I don’t accept