[MCP] Ossining's Performance

[Chesika mcneil]

Well I am a black fourth grade teacher, in the inner city. I happen to be the only black regular ed teacher. It seems to me that the school gives me all of the trouble black students, thinking that I can handle them. Why is that? However, my students are doing well in their studies.

John Lindsay <jclind2 at msn.com> wrote:       P  {  margin:0px;  padding:0px  }  body  {  FONT-SIZE: 10pt;  FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma  }    True, I've read some studies claiming that "Black students do better in schools with middle class whites," not just poor whites.
 
However, they do much, much better when instructed in all Black schools with *experienced* Black teachers who have advanced degrees in the fields they're teaching.
 
Despite having been a member of this list for nearly 8 years, I support such efforts....if there is a positive outcome.
I don't think Blacks, etc., should continue to suffer at the hands of racist non-culturally competent white teachers just for the sake of integration. 
 
Looking back on my parents' and my own generation, there was a higher rate of graduation than there is now, although they attended all-Black schools and I didn't.   

As to the world of work: this issue, in my opinion, has more to do with corporate culture and fitting in rather than achievement....and whether your ideas as a person of color will be accepted, etc. Of course, whether you achieve depends a lot on how your non-traditional ideas are viewed and/or hjow you sell them. 
 
But there are other problems as well: direct v. passive communication styles; volume of voice; etc., etc., etc......which school isn't going to prepare you for.
But your comment comes across as if People of Color "have to be the ones to adapt to corporate culture" rather than that culture being expanded to be more inclusive.
 
DiversityInc.com has several articles addressing "the correct way to evaluate Black, etc., employees, mentoring them, and several other issues." 

  John L. 

From: nasrtaha at hotmail.com
 To: mcp at edchange.org
 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:27:29 -0400
 Subject: Re: [MCP] Ossining's Performance
 
I think that segregating black children even more is not beneficial to 
anyone. The country as a whole should continue desegregating its public 
schools instead of resegregating them. There has been a trend over the last 
twelve years to dismantle desegregation efforts. 
   
  This plays a crucial role 
in the achievement of students of color. It is a fact that students of color 
that go to school with students that are white will do better. Furthermore, 
these same students who are able to go to an integregated school will 
perform better in college and in the work force.

  From: John Lindsay jclind2 at msn.com

   
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