“Yasab, the student of color, is NOT intended to be muted. If you cannot hear his audio, it is due to an issue with channels on certain systems. He has very important input and I am working on fixing it as fast as I can.”
A couple of articles on the removal:
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/arch…
http://news.yahoo.com/popular-seattle…
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinion…
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This reminds me of when an Arizona school district canceled Mexican-American studies.
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As we talked, I admitted that JJ had been suspended three times. All of the mothers were shocked at the news.
“JJ?” one mother asked.
“My son threw something at a kid on purpose and the kid had to be rushed to the hospital,” another parent said. “All I got was a phone call.”
One after another, white mothers confessed the trouble their children had gotten into. Some of the behavior was similar to JJ’s; some was much worse.
Most startling: None of their children had been suspended.
After that party, I read a study reflecting everything I was living.
Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension, according to the study released by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in March.
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Source: www.washingtonpost.com
implicit bias
racial discrimination
“The room where they locked up Heather Luke’s 10-year-old son had cinder block walls, a dim light and a fan in the ceiling that rattled so insistently her son would beg them to silence it. A thick metal door with locks—which they threw, clank-clank-clank—separated the autistic boy from the rest of the decrepit building in Chesapeake, Virginia, just south of Norfolk. One day in March 2011, his mother said, Carson flew into a panic at the mere suggestion of being confined there after an outburst.Staff members held him down, then muscled him through the hallway and attempted to lock him in, yet again. But this time, the effort went awry. Staffers crushed Carson’s hand while trying to slam the door. A surgeon later needed to operate to close the bleeding half-moon a bolt had punched into his left palm. The wound was so deep it exposed bone.” Click through to read more. Source: illuminatebytanya.wordpress.com
On Tuesday, a California court struck down state teacher tenure and seniority protections as a violation of the rights of poor and minority students to an equal education. The decision, which will make it easier to fire bad teachers, who are disproportionately found in high-poverty schools, is being hailed as…
Source: www.slate.com
If students are segregated in school their whole life, what would give them the idea that they could easily integrate into a mixed college campus and a mixed workforce too?
In states like Louisiana with large gaps between the the poorest households and middle earners, students are less likely to graduate high school.
While a little bit of inequality might motivate some students to study harder, a lot of it might kill their motivation entirely.
Source: www.slate.com
Also, has the child been encouraged? Has the child been told the importance of an education in today’s U.S. economy?
Do the teacher’s tell the children that they have potential?
And is there a class that explains in detail the importance of college? If the children know how important college is, then they would be more likely to finish high school
A student says that her substitute teacher duct taped her mouth shut. News 12 New Jersey reports.
See on www.cnn.com
SPLC
“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today notified 96 Alabama school systems that their enrollment practices violate federal prohibitions against denying or discouraging the enrollment of children based on their immigration status or that of their parents.
In many cases, school enrollment forms require a Social Security number or a U.S. birth certificate, without explaining that such disclosure, under federal law, is voluntary and not necessary for enrollment.
The SPLC also urged Alabama School Superintendent Thomas R. Bice to ensure that all schools within the state’s 135 districts comply with federal mandates by the beginning of the 2014-15 school year.
“It is well-established law that all children, regardless of their immigration status, have a right to attend our public schools,” said SPLC attorney Jay Singh. “Too many schools in Alabama, however, are not living up to their legal responsibility.”
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See on www.splcenter.org
