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Teen bullied by teacher and school administrators. Story of Jada Williams, 13 year old harassed by teachers, driven out fo school for writing an essay about Frederick Douglas that made NEA members uncomfortable.
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Exasperated at being unprepared to confront the text, she sought definition to that which she did not comprehend. Once she became satisfied that she grasped Douglass's use of the language, she understood what Douglass was describing. She was struck by comparisons between her life and Douglass's characterizations of the plantation overseers and masters and mistresses who denied him knowledge for fear of his becoming aware of his humanity.
In her essay, Ms. Williams drew a parallel between what she saw as a group of self-satisfied "white teachers" overseeing dysfunctional students (characterized by Ms. Williams as "so-called 'unteachable'" students) who were not being properly taught, illiterate and perpetually ignorant. This she considers a form of slavery.
What an outrage being expelled from school for having an insight into the education she is receiving.
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What an outrage being expelled from school for having an insight into the education she is receiving.
What an outrage that you use the word "expelled" as if you know what it means.
Why is it, 13, that no matter how bad a story is on it's own you always feel the need to make it worse by saying something untrue? Do you think it adds something to the telling? Do you think we need your "help" to be more disturbed or more angered by the plain truth?
Do you not understand that it makes us less sympathetic, not more?
Do you realize why you have zero credibility with so many of us here?
The obsession with Race is obvious, and to just post something from American Stinker... shows the lack of intellectual curiosity and overall intelligence..
She was not expelled, she switched schools..
What is interesing here is that a extreme righty would assume that there is discrimination, something that Jada perceives and believes, however time and time again posters have appealed to your station as moderator when they believe that they have been discriminated against and essentially you say suck it up... strange but true.
Some of her comments:
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When I find myself sitting in a crowded classroom where no real instruction is taking place I can say history does repeat itself,” Jada wrote in her essay, according to the Democrat and Chronicle. “I feel like not much has changed. Just different people. Different era. The same old discrimination still resides in the hearts of the white man.”
Liberal plantation?? Remember those hallowed words next time you accuse someone of race baiting or playing the race card..
Jada won the Spirit of Freedom Award from the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York. She read her winning essay in Rochester. But she and her mother say it was a different story when she turned in her essay at School No. 3.
Williams said, “I heard that my essay was passed around to other teachers, so when they read that they felt offended too. They just wanted to get rid of me, I guess.”
Jada’s mother says her grades suddenly dropped from A’s and B’s to failing and teachers told her Jada was “angry.”
Carla Williams said, “So I said ‘Give me something to explain why you’re calling her ‘angry’’, but they could never clarify why they were saying that.”
There is no defense of what the teachers in Rochester did, but the playing of the race card rings hollow by the extreme right...
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The obsession with Race is obvious, and to just post something from American Stinker... shows the lack of intellectual curiosity and overall intelligence..
She was not expelled, she switched schools..
What is interesing here is that a extreme righty would assume that there is discrimination, something that Jada perceives and believes, however time and time again posters have appealed to your station as moderator when they believe that they have been discriminated against and essentially you say suck it up... strange but true.
Some of her comments:
Liberal plantation?? Remember those hallowed words next time you accuse someone of race baiting or playing the race card..
Thank God we have pf13 and The American Thinker, the Frederick Douglasses of our times, to bring this to our attention.
Some may call them radicals, but I think we need that kind of race-conscious energy to redress the heinous crime of people disagreeing with conservative views. As Glenn Beck, father of the Civil Rights Movement put it, "we were the ones that did it in the first place..."
Perhaps but it doesn't invalidate the article or the parallels Jayda feels, which is what we should be discussing here
Actually, it does, SB.
How can we be expected to "discuss" a faulty premise?
The original article, with it's "Liberal Platation" theme, has already sensationalized it and the thread starter, not content with mere sensationalism, took it one step further - right into the realm of fantasy.
There's no "discussing" the heart of the story when it's been sensationalized unless there is a capability, on both sides of the discussion, of ignoring the sensational and there is no possible discussion of a lie unless the lie is acknowledged and retracted.
I'll be perfectly happy to come back and discuss the matter when and if those two things happen.
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Thank God we have pf13 and The American Thinker, the Frederick Douglasses of our times, to bring this to our attention.
Some may call them radicals, but I think we need that kind of race-conscious energy to redress the heinous crime of people disagreeing with conservative views. As Glenn Beck, father of the Civil Rights Movement put it, "we were the ones that did it in the first place..."
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I get the irony but why didn't we hear about this from the more NEA friendly sources? It's a story worthy of discussion.
....Interesting perspective from a NYC history teacher:
It certainly is a story pregnant with meaning. As a history teacher, I applaud Jada for the type of insight it took to use slavery as a way to shed light on what is happening in black education today. If the school really did harass her because of this essay, then it is something that needs to be dealt with. While it is tempting to call Jada “courageous”, I simply think she was fed up and at a point of total alienation. Her words are like a bolt of lightning in the night, momentarily illuminating the darkness in which American education finds itself.
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