The public school systems goal in the United States is to provide every child with equal education. Unfortunately somewhere along the lines the education system in our country has failed to provide this equal education to many of our children, especially minority. It isn’t that the education is not there, but many other things such as , teachers,learning styles, and the culture of the school itself affect a child’s education. African American students at Forest high experience school differently than Whites. For example, many students at school were they are the minority report they feel less connected to school than do their White peers; many Black students contend that they are forced to participate in a system that has little regard for their culture, values, beliefs and cultural-specific behaviors. I believe that is the case at Forest High which is predominately white. Moreover, the belief that their academic performance is compared to a standard based on White, middle-class society and culture is common among Black students. African American students report feeling particularly venerable because of negative serotypes and perceptions about their group (Polite & Davis, 1999). Another issued or trend that affects Forest High is the lack of minority teachers, especially black. The majority (84%) of the U.S. teaching force is White and middle-class. The majority of those are women. Moreover, 38% of the nation’s public schools do not have a teacher of color on staff (U.S. Department of Education, 2007). As a result, most teachers are not knowledgeable about Black culture and the learning needs of Black students, as they have limited contact with Black communities. The result is a force of grossly underprepared teachers (Zamani-Gallaher & Polite, 2010). Teachers’ lack of cultural awareness and understanding is prohibitive to developing the type of