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.
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!)”
Gunman wounds 3 people on Florida State University’s campus Thursday morning before being killed by police.
Source: www.cnn.com
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
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
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.
A new report out today reveals that Rikers Island, the nation’s second largest jail and subject of a damning federal investigation, spends $96,000 per inmate each year. That’s more than a 40 percent increase since 2006 and, The New York Times reports, twice the amount spent per inmate by other big cities like Los Angeles, which houses a larger inmate population.
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Source: colorlines.com
Protesters hold photographs of missing students outside the building of the office of Mexico’s Attorney General, during a protest supporting the Ayotzinapa Teacher Training College missing students, in Mexico City October 9, 2014.Reuters/Bernardo Montoya
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Source: www.ibtimes.com
“Atiya, an Advanced Placement student, was originally expelled from Annapolis High following the incident. However, on Monday, the school board rolled back her punishment, albeit slightly. Atiya is now suspended for the rest of the year, but will be allowed to take online classes and graduate with her class in 2015, reports local outlet WJBK-TV.”
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
This three-part series on settler colonialism is co-authored between two people: one who identifies as a michif (Métis) man from Saskatoon, the other who identifies as a racialized, non-Indigenous female settler. As co-authors, we are speaking from our own perspectives as an Indigenous person (Justin) and as a settler (Kay).
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Source: unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com