Black Woman Jailed for Sending Kids to Wrong (White) School District

By: jé judson
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I’m so disgusted. I understand where the legality fell through and that technically this falls under fraud. But this says something about our educational system. The woman just wanted her kids to go to a decent school, whereas many aren’t even finishing, and now you want to send her to jail, send the father to jail, tell the kids they have to go back to some shitty school district and not have the same educational opportunity, AND because the mom is charged with a felony, her dream of being a teacher will NEVER happen because of the laws in Ohio preventing felons from teaching. Absolutely disgusting!!!!!!!!

Instead of making her an example maybe they need to be looking at the educational disparities that would make someone go to those lengths—but then again, the powers that be will always deflect the reality by masking it in bullshit legalities (which are inherently created to maintain disparities) and never speak TRUTH. They don’t want every kid to have equal access to GOOD education, because then we might have more equal access to opportunities, and then white power and privilege may be taken down a notch (although not eliminated), and then—as is so popularly said as of recent—our “American values” (read: WHITE American values) would be threatened by some perceived socialism/communism (read: a society not based in institutional racism/-isms) and then were would we be?
Black Woman Jailed for Sending Kids to Wrong (White) School District

Too much education about the “minority experience” in schools

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TN Tea Partiers Demand Schools Not Teach Too Much About ‘Minority Experience’
Tennessee’s tea partiers are sick and tired of all the made-up criticism of our founding fathers — and about schools spending too much time teaching about the “minority experience.”

Local tea partiers have presented state legislators with a list of “demands,” that would alter school curricula to suppress the teaching of the “minority experience,” elect a “state litigator,” and, of course, reject Obama’s health care reform legislation, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.

On the education front, they’re proposing that new textbook-selection criteria basically state that you can teach about minorities in history, just as long as it doesn’t get in the way of teaching students about the majority or about how awesome the founding fathers were.

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Making Latino studies illicit

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This Horne character (state superintendent in Arizona), I believe it was him I saw on TV next to Michael Eric Dyson sounding like a FOOL! He exhibits all the classic symptoms of a closet racist: he has black friends, he marched on Washington, he knows ONE soundbite from MLK, he doesn’t think white privilege exists, he calls people of color who are educated about their history and conscious of the glossed over and heroized “American” history-angry and hostile, he adamantly believes that self-segregation is a thing, solidarity is bad, being numb to social wrongs is good, that the pedagogy of the oppressed (a book he’s never read and couldn’t understand if he did) was written by a communist whose name he cannot pronounce, he speaks Spanish therefore can understand their point of view, and the list just goes on and on.

It really disgusts me to see the same tactics and rhetoric being used on Mexican-Americans with the same violence and menacing tone that would’ve been used on African-Americans decades ago (not to say that it’s stopped with Afro-Americans, it’s just that they feel they have to tread more lightly with African Americans—some of that probably has to do with our status as legal citizens, esp. in Arizona, and that we speak English, even if it is sometimes “black english,” and maybe because some of us who have been turned activists aren’t seen as a threat the way “activised” Mexican Americans may be perceived, because we’ve already been written off as loud, complaining, angry people who can’t focus our efforts into a successful revolution, because we’re too busy still feeling the effects of latent racism and self-hatred and thus too busy pulling each other down—though that’s somewhat of an over-generalization). Either way DAMN DAMN SHAME!!

Arizona is RIDICULOUS!!: Rift in Arizona as Latino Class Is Found Illegal

TUCSON — The class began with a Mayan-inspired chant and a vigorous round of coordinated hand clapping. The classroom walls featured protest signs, including one that said “United Together in La Lucha!” — the struggle. Although open to any student at Tucson High Magnet School, nearly all of those attending Curtis Acosta’s Latino literature class on a recent morning were Mexican-American.

For all of that and more, Mr. Acosta’s class and others in the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American program have been declared illegal by the State of Arizona — even while similar programs for black, Asian and American Indian students have been left untouched.

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Arizona

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It kills me, it really does. That whenever there is social change (for the better) there are death threats, death plots, and successful assassination attempts. And it’s ALWAYS for left-leaning & “liberal” politics, since those two terms seem to be equated with, and mistaken for social & human rights policies. Conservatives engage in this sick…

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