In other words, "African-American", because directly using color to describe a race is racist.
As a multi-ethnic country, there are people of all kinds living in every corner of the United States, including African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Jews, Germans, Irish, and countless others. . . In the process of racial integration in the United States, the most controversial race should be African Americans, that is, black people. The ancestors of black people have been fighting for their status since they were sold to the Americas as slaves. Today, even the president of the United States When they were all African-Americans, the social status of black people had been greatly improved, and in some aspects even surpassed that of white people. However, this was only a superficial phenomenon. In fact, discrimination against black people by white people still existed.
The city we live in has a large number of black citizens, who live together in certain neighborhoods. In those neighborhoods, you can often see black children who have dropped out of school wandering on the streets. The quality of teaching in public schools in the communities is very good. Poor, the quality of students is not high, so it is difficult to attract good teachers. Many of these black children come from single-parent families. Most of them are mothers with children. Each family has several children. The mother often does not have a formal job, or simply Living on social assistance, such families rarely attach importance to their children's education, so black children's behavior and academic performance lag far behind white children.
If the children in the black community are like the above description, then the black children studying in white schools are very different. These families can be roughly divided into the following categories: 1. The child comes from a healthy black family, the parents are well-educated, have stable jobs, and have bought a house in a white community and settled down;
2. The child is adopted by a white couple, or one parent is black;
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3. Ordinary black families who value their children’s education. Parents hope that their children will study in good schools and be successful in the future, so they rent houses in white communities.
What I am going to tell you today is the story of a little black boy from a third type of family. Danno (pseudonym)
, now 6 years old, moved from the black area of ??Chicago last September. He lives with his fourth-grade brother, mother and grandmother. His mother supports the family by doing odd jobs. , the reason why she moved to this city is because Danno’s mother wants her two children to study well and not live like herself in the future, and this school is the top-ranked public school in the city,
< p>Danno’s mother is busy working from morning to night to make money, so the two brothers walk to and from school by themselves.Danno’s brother is thin, tall and loves to play basketball.
p>Danno is a fat boy, and he is out of breath after running two steps.
From the first day he entered school,
Danno was a child who gave the teacher a headache. His behavior was very different from other children. The teacher said I will give you Read a book and ask everyone to sit down.
Danno doesn't sit down. He wanders around. The teacher persuades him to sit down. He says "NO, NO" and screams. . .
Danno’s screams were so loud that the teacher was unable to attend class. As a last resort, the teacher had to invite the principal and take him to the principal’s office to educate him alone.
Danno had to have Going to the principal's office many times, you know, going to the principal's office is probably the most severe punishment for a student in the United States. I have had many evil thoughts about what Danno did in the principal's office. For example, the principal gave him a severe scolding, or called his mother to criticize him, or made him stand in the corner and reflect on his mistakes. etc. . . However, none of this happened. On the contrary, what he did in the principal's office was musicBREAK (listening to some relaxing music) and toysBREAK (playing with some fun toys).
Danno likes to go to the principal’s office very much.
Sometimes he will ask the teacher if my BREAK time is not up yet? The teacher would call the office and ask if he could be sent there.
Danno was always irritable before going there, but he felt much better after going there, so he made less trouble.
Regarding Danno's problems, the principal and teachers adopted the following methods to help him: 1. In view of Danno's symptoms of agitation and inability to concentrate, the principal suggested that Danno's mother take him to see a doctor. The doctor prescribed Danno's medication based on Danno's condition. (PS.
Most hyperactive children here in the United States take medicine); 2. Danno meets with the psychological counselor alone every day for psychological counseling; 3. Danno meets with the principal every morning and afternoon There are two BREAK periods in the office;
4. Among the entire class, Danno is the only one who can enjoy his breakfast and lunch without any time limit. He will stop making trouble when he is full.
To be honest, I found it incredible how the school dealt with problematic students like Danno. I couldn’t believe it at first. At least within my knowledge, I had never seen such a principal. This kind of education method, but this is what really happened. For problem students, the school does not exclude or discriminate, nor does it give up. Instead, it adopts various positive measures to help him make progress little by little.