Just Incredible – Please read the L.A. Times story and comment

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The following is a story that I just read and decided to post on my blog from the L.A. Times.  What a disappointment about LAUSD teachers doing this…but it does not surprise me…since many teachers and people in general have many prejudices and continue to stereotype African American and Latino community members.  For example, if you write a book about the Salvadoran American – many automatically assume that the author has been a gang banger or a drug addict.  How ignorant.  This has occured to me – uninformed and insentive individuals perceived Salvadoran American youth as being GANG BANGERS.  How sad about how we are perceived as a community.  Please read the following story and post a comment if you like:

 

3 L.A. teachers suspended over Black History Month celebration of Simpson, Rodman, RuPaul March 3, 2010 | 6:30 pm Three teachers at a South Los Angeles elementary school have been suspended for allegedly encouraging students to celebrate O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul for Black History Month, officials said Wednesday. Children at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School were carrying pictures of the men at a parade Friday on the school playground, said Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Gayle Pollard-Terry. She said Supt. Ramon C. Cortines learned about the incident Tuesday and had the teachers, who are white, pulled from their classrooms pending an investigation. The suspension is without pay for the first three days. “The superintendent believes there are better choices,” she said. Other students were carrying pictures of President Obama and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The teachers have not been identified and could not be reached for comment. District officials did not provide details about what the teachers did, saying the investigation was still ongoing. .Some community leaders aren’t satisfied with the suspensions and are calling for the dismissal of the instructors, who teach 1st, 2nd and 4th grade. “I just can’t fathom what these teachers were thinking of except to make a mockery of African American history,” said Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles branch of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People. L. C. “Chris” Strudwick-Turner of the Los Angeles Urban League likened the episode to a series of racially provocative incidents at UC San Diego, where a Feb. 15 off-campus party mocked Black History Month. “These kinds of things build on each other,” she said. “When something like that happens in [San Diego] and there is no immediate consequence, that emboldens others. That’s why I was glad that LAUSD took them out of the classroom right away.” Pollard-Terry said Simpson, Rodman and RuPaul were included on a list of prominent African Americans approved by the school for study during Black History Month. She said the three teacher were believed to have suggested at least some of those names for the list. Strudwick-Turner said the Urban League has been told by people who attended the parade that the teachers had been asked to instruct their classes on a notable African American and that they had Simpson, Rodman and RuPaul. The district had dispatched a human relations and ethnic diversity team Wednesday to help the school prepare lessons that are “more appropriate for Black History Month,” she added. –Alexandra Zavis

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