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| | | | 13-Year-Old Black Girl in Rochester, New York Persecuted and Forced Out of School for Challenging White Teachers to Teach and for Challenging Her Black Classmates to Learn with Essay on Frederick Douglass In her essay, Jada Williams quotes part of the scene where Frederick Douglass' slave master catches his wife teaching then slave Frederick to read and tells her he (Frederick) would be useless as a slave if he were able to read. Miss Williams quoted Douglass quoting the slave master: "If you teach that nigger how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master." She reflected on how the "white teachers" do not have enough control of the classroom to successfully teach the minority students in Rochester. She sees the fact that so many of the other "so-called 'unteachable'" students aren't learning to read as a form of modern-day slavery. Their illiteracy holds them back in society. Her call to action was then in her summary: "A grand price was paid in order for us to be where we are today; but in my mind we should be a lot further, so again I encourage the white teachers to instruct and I encourage my people to not just be a student, but become a learner." Click Here to see and hear Jada Williams read her essay and you decide if she should have been forced out of Rochester, New York Public Schools. Click Here to see a news story on this great American travesty that punishes Black children for wanting to learn! Please contact Rochester Superintendent of Public Schools Vargas Bolgen at bolgen.vargas@rcsdk12.org or call (585) 262-8100 to voice your concerns about Ms. Jada Williams being force out of school because she wants her classmates to learn. |
| Students Suspended for Trying to Improve Prince Georges County, Maryland High School Over 300 mostly Black and Latino students at Northwestern High School in Prince George's County Maryland planned a walkout and rally as part of the National Student Day of Action to protest unsanitary conditions in their school, enormous class sizes, cuts to the ESOL program, and denial of promised pay raises for their teachers. The students also were asking for more teacher/parent/student input in the curriculum and demanding an apology for a group of Filipino teachers who were fired and deported after not having their work visas renewed. The Administration at Northwestern discovered the walkout plan early in the day by trolling Twitter and put the school on lockdown. Police blocked the doors and canine units waited in the school's parking lot. They held student leaders in the Principal's office all day, threatened them with expulsion, and at the end of the day suspended four students for 5 days requiring that when they return their parents must accompany them to classes all day. Contact Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr., Ed.D., at 301-952-6008 or email william.hite@pgcps.org to register your support for suspended students. |
| In Chicago, Become A Local School Council Member to Create Excellent Schools What Research Says: Researchers Karen Smith Conway, professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire, and her colleague Andrew Houtenville, senior research associate at New Editions Consulting, found that parental involvement has a strong, positive effect on student achievement. "Parental effort is consistently associated with higher levels of achievement, and the magnitude of the effect of parental effort is substantial. We found that schools would need to increase per-pupil spending by more than $1,000 in order to achieve the same results that are gained with parental involvement," Conway said. Nomination forms are due in schools Thursday, March 8, 2012 by 3:00pm. Please call 773.553.1400 for more information. . |
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|  When a girl's first date is with her father, all other men will have to measure up to that standard. For many girls, a good relationship with their father leads to improved educational, social and physical outcomes. Fathers' investment in their daughters helps girls to be more confident, emotionally balanced and independent. The best way to guarantee that your daughter will have the high self-esteem necessary to choose a good mate is for you, her father, to be the model for her choice and decision making. Call The Black Star Project at 773.285.9600 to bring a Daddy-Daughter Dance to your city! |
| Chinese School Creates New Standards for "Cool" and "Hip" ZHENGZHOU - A high school in Central China's Henan province recently set a code of behavior for students to become "macho boys" and "cute and clever girls", which has become a hot topic among local teachers and students. Zhengzhou No 18 High School, which specializes in art education, granted the titles "macho boys" and "cute and clever girls" to 44 students - 22 boys and 22 girls - at the beginning of the new semester, so other students would emulate their behavior. Duan Yaping, 44, the school principal, said some students used to think that misbehavior like smoking would make them look cool, so the school has chosen role models for them, according to a report of Zhengzhou-based Henan Business News. Read More... |
| One of the best options for educating Black students in America -- Saturday University Please call 773.285.9600 to learn how to start a Saturday University in your city. We have 15 free Saturday Universities operating in and around Chicago. Please call 773.285.9600 to register your child for free academic enhancement or for more information about Saturday University. |
| Michelle Alexander and The New Jim Crow Social Justice Movement Arrive in Nebraska on Saturday, March 10, 2010 People in Omaha, Lincoln, North Platte and Grand Island, Nebraska; Sioux City, Des Moines, Davenport and Iowa City, Iowa; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Minneapolis and Rochester, Minnesota; St. Joseph and Kansas City, Missouri; Overland Park, Topeka and Kansas City, Kansas; Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Denver, Colorado are encouraged to attend this event. "Much like a great explorer, Michelle Alexander has discovered another America--a bizarro world where prejudice and discrimination have replaced truth and justice. An America that is as intent on destroying young Black men as it is at proclaiming its passion for freedom and fairness. Even some of the most conscious and best-intentioned Americans can't see The New Jim Crow and their roles in supporting it. Michelle Alexander holds a mirror up to America and reveals a monster!" - Phillip Jackson, The Black Star Project |
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