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New article claims NOLA teachers are "too white"
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:48 pm
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:48 pm
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They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
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“I heard a student say, ‘Ms. Foster, I can’t get away with stuff with you because you’re black, but I can with this teacher because she’s white,’ ” she says. Even innocuous interactions, like taking students to lunch or giving them rides home, came to be characterized by students racially. If a white teacher did something nice for a student, the student might muse, “Why isn’t the person that looks like me nice to me?” Foster says. “To me, that was them telling me, ‘I wish I had more.’ ”
They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
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Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:49 pm to lsuwontonwrap
I blame Yeezy
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:50 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Well it's a Charter School community. What do they expect?
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:51 pm to lsuwontonwrap
quote:
I heard a student say, ‘Ms. Foster, I can’t get away with stuff with you because you’re black, but I can with this teacher because she’s white
Did she hear that student fail English?
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:57 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Just another no-win situation. If you treat everyone equally, then you're racist. If you make allowances for subgroups of the class to help level the playing field, then you're doing them a disservice and you're racist.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:57 pm to lsuwontonwrap
It's s shame these kids have heard this from their moms/dads/families as well as the media their entire lives. Everything they see, hear, or experience they equate to race. Shame.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 1:59 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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What the students wanted more of was teachers who looked like them and came from a similar background, teachers who understood how they talked, behaved, and lived.
Imagine if a predominantly white school district used this as their rationale for aiming to only hire as many white teachers as they could, and purposely not hire teachers of other races?
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:00 pm to lsuwontonwrap
I'm about to the point where many more of these articles and I'm just not going to care anymore. Keep dumbing yourselves down and keep manufacturing excuses for dumbness.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:02 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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If a white teacher did something nice for a student, the student might muse, “Why isn’t the person that looks like me nice to me?
White guilt or just generally being a pushover.
I work with students at a predominantly black school. The teacher I also work with is an amazing person, but she doesn't take shite from her students. She's not afraid to use tough love with them. It genuinely seems like the students respect her more for that.
This post was edited on 6/6/16 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:03 pm to lsuwontonwrap
4cubbies causing problems.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:03 pm to lsuwontonwrap
quote:
Over time, test scores increased, on average, and graduation rates improved. But Jarrell says kids didn't love their schools
And this is why our schools our failing. When students improve, we blame white teachers for making them work harder
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:04 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Not too white:
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:04 pm to lsuwontonwrap
quote:
‘Ms. Foster, I can’t get away with stuff with you because you’re black, but I can with this teacher because she’s white,’
That's because if Ms. Foster does something to discipline them, she won't be labeled a racist and lose her job.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:05 pm to soccerfüt
Piss & bums
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:05 pm to lsuwontonwrap
Would NOLA have any teachers if it wasn't for TFA?
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:07 pm to lsuwontonwrap
They show is
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:09 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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Foster’s own education was rooted in the many school-based traditions that have historically helped define the educational experiences of black New Orleanians—activities such as marching band, baton twirling, football, and long-standing homecoming rivalries. At L.W. Higgins High School, Foster was taught by some of the same educators as her mother, also a Higgins alumna. But she says her childhood classrooms often lacked rigor and structure. Once, she recalls, “I remember walking into the room and [the teacher] had everything written on the board. We wrote everything on the board, and then class was over.”
She also remembers spending middle school lunches roaming freely between the cafeteria, a concession stand, and the outdoors. That autonomy had upsides, helping her and her classmates mature, Foster says. She’s concerned it’s an opportunity lost to charter students bound by rules that govern their movement throughout the school day. “When you have less freedom, you want to break out of that structure so badly that you’re consistently finding ways to do so.”
Good Lord
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:11 pm to lsuwontonwrap
My neighbors are two of these "too white" teachers. They are both in their mid twenties and moved here about a year or two ago to teach. The guy lasted a year, and the girl lasted about 2. I'm not sure why they thought it would be a good idea to move here and teach at public schools, as they are both intelligent (graduated from UVA). They are moving this summer because the girl got into Stanford for grad school.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:13 pm to BilJ
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“When you have less freedom, you want to break out of that structure so badly that you’re consistently finding ways to do so.”
Sounds kind of like the Montessori method, but it only works with students who are self-motivated.
Posted on 6/6/16 at 2:15 pm to Bmath
She seemed to have it under control:
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