When 13-year-old Jada Williams was given a copy of Frederick Douglass’ book “The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass,” she was inspired. So inspired that she decided to write an essay that drew a parallel between the abhorrent illiteracy in city schools and slavery. And she took aim at her teachers.
But that, apparently, is where she went wrong. The teacher took exception to the essay — which was supposed to be for a contest but was never submitted — and even confronted her. And according to her mother, that started a chain of hostility by the school — located in Rochester, NY — which eventually forced the mother to remove Jada from the school.
“My advice to my peers, people of color, and my generation, start making these white teachers accountable for instructing you,” Jada wrote. “They tooled this profession, they brag about their credentials, they brag about their tenure, so if you have so much experience then find a more productive way to teach the so called ‘unteachable.’”
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Sorry but that was a racist paper that young lady wrote. I can only imagine what would have been said if the race had been switched around. But I'm sure she is viewed as a victim. That's whats called a double standard. What total BS!
^10:12, I totally agree. If that had been a little white girl, then the NAACP, Rev. Al Sharpton, and every other black activitst would have been on TV the very next day to protest. This country has been trying to teach the "unteachables" for about the last decade now. It's been called the No Child Left Behind act. The only thing that this act has done over the last decade is lower the level of education in our public schools. The class can only learn as fast as their slowest student, or the "unteachables". The real problem behind this is not that the "unteachables" take longer to learn, it is that they just plain don't want to learn. They are not willing to put forth any effort into learning, you can't teach people like this. You've heard the old saying "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink". This is why daughter is taking algebra right now and may come home with one 5-10 problem assignment a week, when I was in school (which was only like 15yrs ago)we used to have math homework of 20-30 problems each and every night. We even asked the teacher if she could give more homework so that our daughter would get the practice she needed, the teacher said that it is frowned apon because they know that so many students wont do the homework, and therfor it will end up lowering their grade to a point where they would likely fail the class. But that's okay, the world needs people to flip burgers too.
Did either of you bother to read the entire story or just a part of it. This teacher over reacted.
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