WellOWell
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhr1JbNjPs0&feature=related
This makes me wonder why I was put in a special education class with my brother but I am all honors now. I do remember my parents rarely helping me at home with school work but I can't understand why I was so quickly put in this class because I wasn't able to catch on quickly enough. I was tested later for being gifted and it wasn't that I was slow. Prior to that I went on for a long time, thinking I wasn't smart enough.
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lol, damn, I guess you feel that sucks for you, but we're people and bound to make misjudgement, let's just hope that does not happen on the operating table.
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Wow...WellOWEll, thank you for posting this!
I have thought this for a long time... Unfortunately, a lot of people in education do NOT want to hear this. The man's right-- educator's will NOT look at him as their friend. And backrooms? Oh yes, they do exists, and oh yes, you are "tracked."
Don't get me going on this....
I also think that there is a "bottle neck" effect, for the kids of color who make it into post secondary. The higher up in education they get, the fewer mentors they will find.. but why is this?
Well, the mentors that you run into, in college and grad school are profs.. and all you have to do is open a catalog to discover that there just aren't that many profs of color at universities... But why is this the case?
Hiring practices, and a very small pool of applicants... and most of those applicants, like this teacher, are very honest... in other words, they "rock the boat." Most Universities don't want that. They don't want a Cornel West or a Boyce Watkins.... it gives them a "ticklish" feeling and makes them uncomfortable. They're all "for" diversity; as long as it doesn't make them feel uncomfortable.
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PassingWoman
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Quote: This makes me wonder why I was put in a special education class with my brother but I am all honors now. I do remember my parents rarely helping me at home with school work but I can't understand why I was so quickly put in this class because I wasn't able to catch on quickly enough. I was tested later for being gifted and it wasn't that I was slow. Prior to that I went on for a long time, thinking I wasn't smart enough.
Don't you beleive that WellOWell! No, no, no. Don't you beleive that, not even for a second!
I've never caught onto things "quickly"-- it's a learning style. I have to mull over new information.... We all learn in different ways. But I end up remembering what I learn and I retain it....
Do not let the people who try to label you convince you of their nonsense. You are who you beleive yourself to be. Set a "high bar" for yourself.. YOu may not always reach the level you were aiming for (no one is perfect) but you'll do much better than if you'd set yourself up with low expectations!!!
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By third grade every single 'Black' person at my school was being put into remedial classes. Of course they'd talk to the parents but the usual conception is 'teachers know best'. When they called my house my father asked them why. The main reason was my speech impediment and I didn't pay attention in class. I couldn't pronounce words properly and still don't. He told them my speech problem didn't affect my education. So pissed the teachers sent me to the counselor to prove my incompetence and found I actually had a fifth grade reading level and comprehension and the reason why I wasn't paying attention was because I was learning faster than they were teaching. It wasn't until I was in high school and noticed that almost every single 'Black' person from my elementary school district was taking shit like Algebra I as Juniors in high school that I talked to my dad and he told me the tale. He said it was common in the old days. Black people were just thought to be genetically inferior in intelligence than white people and as such the schools giving them remedial classes to dumb them down was actually helping them. I don't know. Logic sounds a bit flawed but look at it this way. Their are usual far more kids crammed into a classroom than the teacher can effectively teach. Somebody is going to have to get lost in the shuffle. Instead of having to pick and choose children why not use the easier method? Just mark a particular group off as needing remedial, in the case of my school, 'Black' children. You may be thinking 'Oh, dear Lord, how can you talk about teachers that way!' but teachers are only human and we all know how humans, especially Americans, like their little groups. Their specific groups to hang out with, people who look like them. Their specific groups to hate, people who don't look like them. Their specific groups to label, stereotype, etc. You know. Wholesome All American pass time. And here you thought it was the NFL.
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Blaq, I think you're right...
But I also think a lot of teachers do it as a sort of "sort the wheat from the chaff" thing... you were too far ahead, but no recognized that. Thank gawd for your dad.. he cared.
Too many other parents of color are just trying to survive... so when something like this comes up, and they're terrified there won't be food on the table tomorrow night.. well what takes precedent? And that "teacher knows right" (which a bunch of fooey, imo), yes, we do trust them... but they are overwhelmed.
You gotta raise your kids, watching what's happening and being involved. that's it..
and BTW, the system STINKS!!!!
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