[AAACE-NLA] school segregation - Anecdotes

[Margery Freeman]

Dear Paul,
I am forwarding your note to two colleagues of mine, Maria Reinat Pumarejo
and Raul Quinones Rosado, who run an organization called the Institute for
Latino Empowerment, based in Puerto Rico.  They are anti-racist
trainers/organizers who do a great deal of work throughout the United
States, helping organizations and communities better understand the reasons
for institutional racism and how to organize to overcome it.  My experience
with them is that their analysis and strategies are very effective. I have
copied them on this email to you, but in case you don't get the contact
information here, I recommend that you contact them at the Institute for
Latino Empowerment (Ile), 787-712-5784.
Margery
Margery Freeman


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PAUL ROGERS" <pwaynerogers at yahoo.com>
To: "National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by AAACE"
<aaace-nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:22 PM
Subject: [AAACE-NLA] school segregation - Anecdotes


>     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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