Education

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A Return to School Segregation in America? – Separate and Unequal – FRONTLINE

Public schools are more segregated now than in 1968. Does it matter? FRONTLINE goes inside one school district’s debate about education, class and race in the upcoming “Separate and Unequal.”

 

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Source: www.pbs.org

 

School integration without respect for ALL the students is also bad for the students who are disrespected.

 

Y’all. Do schools do enough to teach respect for ALL students?

 

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High School Bans ‘I Can’t Breathe’ T-Shirts

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing protests over police killings of unarmed black men after a school was disinvited because of concerns its players would wear T-shirts printed with the words “I Can’t Breathe” during warmups.

The athletic director at Fort Bragg High School informed his counterpart at Mendocino High School this week that neither the boys nor girls team would be allowed to participate in the three-day tournament hosted by Fort Bragg High starting Monday, Mendocino Unified School District Superintendent Jason Morse said.

The boys were reinstated after all but one player agreed not to wear the shirts inspired by the last words of Eric Garner, the New York man who died after an officer put him in a chokehold, while on the Fort Bragg campus during the Vern Piver Holiday Classic tournament, Morse said. Too few girl players accepted the condition for the team to field a tournament squad, he said.

 

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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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High school student dragged to swimming pool by teacher speaks out

Garcia’s attorney says Peterson should not have put a hand on the girl. The video shows he even asks other students to help him: “somebody tickle her,” he is heard saying in the 95-second video.

“No means no and stop means stop. This isn’t a situation where she’s attacking a teacher and he’s defending himself. When a woman or a 14-year-old girl says no, it means no,” he said.

Source: latino.foxnews.com

 

If I find a teacher treating my child like that – there will be hell to pay.

 

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In Response to #Ferguson

 

I recently read the book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. If you haven’t read it, you might want to get a quick intro to him by watching his TED talk:

 

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Source: www.onedropoflove.org

 

The middle part of the video and the second half are the most important.

 

And don’t miss Fanshen’s recommendations:

 

“Teaching About Ferguson and also this terrific crowd-sourced google document (which I will be adding to soon): Ferguson resources, crowdsourced in real-time by educators (thanks Abby Brown-Steinberg for the link!)”

 

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How New York Schools Are Deterring Immigrants From Enrollment

At least 86 school districts in New York are requiring documents that some immigrant children do not have and discouraging enrollment as a result, a New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) survey found Thursday. Some schools are even reportedly turning kids away. An earlier review found that 139 districts were out of compliance with the law in their 2010 survey, but four years on, the majority of those schools still require information or proof of residency that could have a “chilling effect” on immigrants who are too afraid to register because of their immigration status, a move that could be in violation of federal law.

“Today’s survey demonstrates that the State Education Department (SED) has failed to enforce its own guidelines regarding immigrant student enrollment, despite being aware of the problems for years,” the NYCLU press release read in part.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1982 that public schools cannot deny undocumented immigrants a public education on account of their legal status.

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Source: thinkprogress.org

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Making Light of Slavery?

 

Recently in the Texas History class I am teaching a student shared an example of how two friends would quasi reenact an enslaved, enslaver situation at the place where they work. The White person would tell the Black person “get to work” and so on.
This student followed up in an email asking my thoughts: “How do you feel about that though, specifically, making a joke out of slavery? Do you think it’s offensive, ignores the plight of the enslaved, or perhaps something I/we haven’t considered? Or is it okay, diminishing the detrimental effects on the psyche of the African Americans by satirizing it?”
I asked if I could have time to think about it and “reply” here. This student said yes, so here goes.

 

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Source: andrewpegoda.com

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style guide: racial language

 

General rules I currently try to follow (click on links for further discussion):

 

Source: abagond.wordpress.com

 

This article sheds light on why many are nervous to talk about race.

 

They are scared they may say something offensive.

 

Learning from this post can provide a lot of help to not be offensive.

 

Avoiding the topic of race, culture and ethnicity does not help move the country toward racial justice, dignity and respect.

 

Avoiding the topic of oppression keeps the oppression firmly in place.