As a BCSE leader, Malachi has lost faith in the ability of the Montreal school system to school his children. He is frustrated with a school system in which teacher-student relationships are cold, Black students do not see themselves represented in the composition of the teaching staff or educational leadership, and in which Blackness shows up only briefly during Black History Month. He feels that many BCSEs become caught up in a situation where grant-writing becomes the work and serving the community takes a back seat. Malachi feels that mainstream funding structures create unnecessary competition among BCSEs. For Malachi, BCSEs are also about building something tangible and lasting: businesses and real estates.