That's a good trainer

Let them train the ones just like themselves. That way people like them get a trainer who knows their struggles.

Should that not be for all those who teach others? Have teachers in schools that have lived a similar life that the students have, so they can relate?

It should that of those who know to teach those who do not to the best of their ability. Limiting a student (of any kind be it that taught by a trainer or a teacher or a professor etc) to those that had similar experiences is a disservice to them as they are only getting their own view reflected back to them.

How so? The teacher could have grown up in a neighborhood where things were extremely difficult, and found ways to deal with things. The teacher overcame the nrgative impacts of the area they grew up in and made something of themselves. That allows thw students to see that there is something better out there than the four walls of the neighborhood in question.

And? Limiting a student to people that have similar experiences will always be a disservice as it will always lock out valuable experiences that they have no no exposure to at all. Having only teachers from a racist hick community would have been a great disservice to me just as having only people from poor Native American backgrounds would have been a great disservice to me. Having multiple varying view points is required for a good environment.

Exactly right. I was weaving off of the comment of having a trainer/teacher with the same issue being able to help you through it. That does not actually work. Trainers are meant to help you, no matter thwir background. The same as a regular teacher. I was giving a perspective.

We'd have no goddamn teachers.

We would have teachers just extremely varying class sizes. It's fairly impossible for someone to have absolutely no experiences similar to some teacher in a school district.