[AAACE-NLA] school segregation - Anecdotes

[PAUL ROGERS]

    I am sending the following article as an anecdote
to the racism directed at "Hispanic" students. There
is also a lot of "instituional" racism in the school
systems which suppress bilingual education. And in
adult schools, Spanish speaking students are chastized
for speaking Spanish.
    What is the solution? Obviously, those who really
want to change the system have to ...organize
themselves. Who's interested?
Paul Rogers
ARTICLE:
Hispanics upset by teacher's discipline
By Anne Ryman and Ofelia Madrid
The Arizona Republic (Phoenix), January 17, 2004

Parents expressed outrage Friday over the possibility
that an Ingleside Middle School teacher hit their
children for speaking Spanish in class instead of 
English.

The teacher told school district investigators that
she was enforcing the district's English immersion
program and did not intend to injure the 
children. 
Eight children told police that teacher Kim
Youngblood, 52, hit or slapped them. Some of the
children told police their arms or hands were sore 
afterward.

"Her job is to teach the students, not to hit them,"
said Antonio Montes, 42,whose 13-year-old daughter,
Maria, told investigators she was slapped 
on the shoulder. "It doesn't matter what the teacher's
motive was," said the girl's 
father.
. . .
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0117teacher17.html


--- "George E. Demetrion" <sophocles5 at juno.com> wrote:
> I add my hearty a-men to this.
> 
> A singular story may be an anecdote.  A profusion of
> thick qualitative
> descriptions is what one would refer to as evidence,
> which then requires
> probing critical analysis.
> 
> Can some prominent institution play a leadership
> role in establishing a
> creative web-page where a national qualitative data
> base of student
> learning can be housed?
> 
> George Demetrion
> 
> 
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:58:27 -0500
> AndresMuro at aol.com writes:
> >Hi, a few days ago I posted some student anecdotes,
> and other people 
> >started to post some more. I was talking to Daphne
> in the WIL group 
> >and about an idea, and she suggested that I post it
> here, so here it 
> >is:
> >
> >After sharing our anecdotes and reading some from
> other posters, I had 
> >a thought. Often, people speak about adult ed
> students w/o having any 
> >idea of who they are. The make hideous decisions
> about them w/o 
> >understanding the damage or the consequences. Could
> we somehow collect 
> >anecdotes from all of us, as a resource to
> distribute in house 
> >appropriation meetings, to send to our politicians,
> etc?
> >
> >Andres
> >
> >
> >go here: www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
> >
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