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TEXAS
INFORMER
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Disparities in minority student
disciplining a huge problem!
by Maxine Session
As
a child, I spent lots of time
questioning my elders about what life
was like during their childhood days.
My maternal grandfather was (born in
November 1888 and died 1974) and my dad
born (Jessie March 1910 died 1973) I
especially questioned. My
grandfather (O. B. Denman) who talked
about everything from farming to ghost
stories to pranks his children pulled
when they were young, but never about
the hardships he and his family had
endured as a result of segregation and
racism. My dad’s family (Burley and
Dupree) were part of the Slocum Massager
of 1910. Some were murdered and all were
run out of Slocum, losing family owned
land, but he never volunteered
information about it. I had to really
pry to get anything out of him.
Many times in my life I have either
written about or been asked questions
about the difference between my
generation and the children of today.
The longer I live and the more I see of
life, the harder it becomes to answer
that question. My generation,
every aspect of our lives was limited by
race.
use to say children of today are free
from boundaries that limit their future.
I still say that to some extent, but I’m
finding the longer I live and the more I
learn that some adults who hold the
future of today’s youth in their hands
are using race and racism to limit their
success now and for the future. A
recent report released by TEA on
Disparities Among Minority Student
Disciplining when the decision is in the
hands of school administrators should be
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parents and
everybody else.
It makes
me want to
question the
moral conscience
of those people
and the ones who
hire them. When
youth are
criminalized as
high school
students, how
does this impact
their education
and their chance
for future
success?
Children of
today are
outspoken,
easily provoked
and react
immediately to
any emotion
stirred inside
them.
Where do they
find
understanding
and guidance ,
if not from the
people they
spend the most
time with during
a day other than
their parents?
We test, test,
test the kinds
on every hand
before they can
earn a high
school diploma.
Anybody who
would hurt kids
needs to have
his or her head
examined. It
appears that
psychological
testing might
need to be part
of the
application
process for
school
administrator
positions when
they are
considered for
hire. Our family
has a three
month old, one
due in June, two
two-year olds, a
three year old a
five year old
and others
coming along in
the near future,
I hope. I am
seriously
concerned about
their
educational
future with the
mind set of some
of these people
running our
schools. I
wonder, do they
know God? |
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Mr. Session,
I
have a question
for your
newspaper. The
Gallatin Gopher
Fest, which I
enjoy as a
resident,
promotes itself
as a “friendly
family oriented
event.” In East
Texas terms that
means no
alcohol.
However, every
year a main
focus is the
re-enactors of
the Civil War
(Confederates)
who periodically
blast a cannon
and sell pro
confederate
memorabilia.
As I understand
it, Gallatin
didn’t exist as
a community
during the Civil
War. As I
understand it,
beer drinking
did. I’m
confused about
the notion that
training the
residents of
Gallatin in the
confederate ways
is a friendly
family affair.
Wouldn’t a chili
cook-off as a
fund raiser,
ignoring that
the cooks have
beer, be even
more family
friendly?
Christine Harper
Gallatin, Texas |
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