: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:27:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Lots of news on boys and school. None of it
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and have the confidence that they can accomplish anything they set out to do.
Kudos to your daughter!
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From: "Kelwyn"
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 12:27:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Lots of
I think the problem for a lot of kids is that if you do not fit into the
mold you will be labeled as a bad apple and become an outcast. It is likely
to happen quite often with children of color or poor white children.
The problem with "profiling" kids is that they are constantly changing. The
kid
I don't know if this is still true but fourteen years ago, when my daughter was
enrolled in Montessori school, where the pre-school was laid out in different
"life" modules, the black students would always end up in the kitchen area.
This was found to be true at both private and public Montesso
Leslie,
Your comment "you would think he was a budding serial killer" resonates with
me. In the aftermath of the Columbine Massacre, there arose several states of
hysteria - Wisconsin being one of them. In Milwaukee, several black boys,
including my son, were singled out as "enemies of the st
