[MCP] Ossining's Performance

[John Lindsay]

Have you ever inquired why that might be the case?
It appears you're doing an excellent job with them which most likely wouldn't happen with non-culturally competent (ncc) white teachers and/or inexperienced Black teachers (though I don't know your teaching background).
 
In general, do you think you tolerate or are more receptive/knowledgeable/understanding of certain behaviors that you recognize as culturally based (rather than individual)....which would most likely not be tolerated by ncc teachers and result in time out of classes due to suspensions/expulsions?  
 
Could you describe their academic performance before being placed in your class(es)? In comparison with other schools in your district or city, how does your school's teachers rank?
 
A Black friend in the Sacramento system, who won "Teacher of the Year" in 2005, informed me that she "noticed that very few Black students are placed in her classes."John L. 
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:01:17 -0700From: chesikamcneil at yahoo.comTo: mcp at edchange.orgSubject: Re: [MCP] Ossining's PerformanceWell 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: 
 
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." 
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