SYDNEY, N.S. — Amber Tobin had one teacher who looked like her through elementary, middle and high school. That teacher was Lynn Crawford-Carter, now the ...
Amber Tobin stands outside Harbourside Elementary School in Whitney Pier on Wednesday afternoon, where she teaches Grade 1. NICOLE SULLIVAN/CAPE BRETON - Nicole SullivanSYDNEY, N.S. — Amber Tobin had one teacher who looked like her through elementary, middle and high school.
Tobin grew up in Whitney Pier and is the youngest of six siblings. The Sydney woman is the only one of her siblings to have had a Black teacher and it was that year in Crawford-Carter's classroom that made Tobin start thinking about a career in education. For Tobin, she hasn't seen much improvement in the representation of African Nova Scotian educators in schools.
"When I first came to Canada, I was in Montreal and at the University d'Ottawa , there was still a large Black community," she said."It really is a minority here." "When a student finds a teacher like him or her … they can also make them dream more about their future. Not low esteem about themself but they can dream far about their future. Like, 'I can also be a teacher, not just the Acadian .'"
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