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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the comments on this thread really show why we need to be more sensitive to all of those around us.  In the DC area we live with many racial differences, cultural differences, etc.   The DC area is fast become majority minority.  Maybe we don't need teacher training - but as a community we do need to deal with reality.  I am sure there are teachers with biases that perhaps they don't even realize they have.   However, I am frankly more worried about the commuity as a whole when I read some of the ignorant comments on this thread.  [/quote]

Yes lets all be sensitive and bury our heads in the sand and pretend that there are not serious problems in classrooms caused by minority students.  Ask ANY teacher who causes the most disruptions in their classrooms and who are the most difficult to deal with.  Why do you think that when there is an opening at schools like Poolesville, Churchill, Whitman, Quince Orchard or their feeder schools that there are hundreds of applicants?  Why?  They want to get away from the jungle that the east side of the county has become.[/quote]

Since hundreds and hundreds of white teachers are leaving town to avoid teaching minority (black) students, what about the ones with predominately black classrooms who remain?  Are they just going through the motions  until they land a better position?

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[b]        Who said anything about leaving town?  Ask any teacher (if you know one) where he/she would rather be teaching if given the chance[/b].[/quote]

I've been given many opportunities to teach in some of the schools perceived to have the better reputation.  And while I did open up a new high school, I stayed for only two years before moving back to a downcounty school.  I've spent the bulk of my teaching years as the "minority" in my own classroom.

While I am free and comfortable in having discussions about race - as I do have plenty of friends who are not white - it does become difficult at times hearing a lot of blame placed upon white teachers.  There will come a point where some of the better teachers - who avoid confrontation at all costs -  will leave.  And sadly, I've seen fewer and fewer minorities enter the profession.  So there are no role models for our students of color.[/quote]

It would be very helpful if a white teacher(s) shared how they're bending over backwards for the black boys that they teach.  Yes, it is unfortunate that fewer minorities are entering the profession.  My DS has been quite fortunate in that he has been nurtured to excel by the majority of his black teachers.  His classroom relationships with his white teachers have been cold and impersonal with the exception of his wonderful preschool teacher.  DS is in high school now.

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If you deny that there is pressure to NOT send black boys out of class or to NOT fail them then you are lying.  The old sup and the new one have made it clear that the suspension rate of black boys was unacceptable.  Thus a wise teacher does not set any suspension related issue in motion unless its a bench clearing brawl in the room.[/quote]

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