As an educator and San Diego Unified School Board president, Dorothy Smith pushed for equity, helped form the next generation of teachers
Longtime education leader and teacher Dorothy L.W. Smith, who was the first African-American woman elected to public office in San Diego County, died Wednesday.
She credited her parents with strengthening her against discrimination they faced, whether it was being spit on or called the n-word. “I regard everyone else in the classroom as equal, as human beings. I never consider myself as being the only one who knows something,” she said in a 1981 interview. “I learn from students.”that the biggest problem she saw in education was the lack of equity for students, particularly Black and Latino students who were not being given enough opportunities to thrive. She embraced equity as one of her major goals, she said.
As a board member Smith pushed to revamp high school courses at San Diego Unified, to raise the quality of instruction and curriculum, including the removal of classes that didn’t meet college entrance requirements and remedial classes that didn’t count toward high school graduation.
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