Implicit bias is also a prime example of how students are profoundly affected by adults’ inability to interrogate our own prejudices and cultural blind spots. When adults do not do this, statistics illuminate that young people suffer grave consequence. While we often believe that our inner thoughts have no bearing on our actions, science proves this untrue. For example, Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity found that implicit bias is “an unconscious yet powerful contributor to school discipline disparities.”24
