Students at Dillard Drive Middle School in Raleigh were sent to separate assemblies after a Hispanic seventh grader tried to intimidate a black classmate with gang-related clothing. The principal instructed teachers to send black seventh-graders for one assembly and Hispanics to another. Did the principal make the right call by separating the students?
I seem to remember some Federal law, what was that now?...
But hey, teach what you are the most comfortable with.
Well, I wasn’t there and don’t have all the information so I can’t say whether that was the right call or not. But I can certainly imagine situations in which it would be the right call. I’m reasonably sure that when the police break up a fight they don’t immediately place all the occupants in a single room, then talk about the problem. Sometimes the prudent thing to do is separate all of the involved parties.
Immediately leaping on the “segregation” train appears over the top to me. How about just considering it to be keeping two groups of mutually antagonistic people apart for a bit? Is that really segregation?
More important than any of this to me is the clear message that if you are a school administrator, you are just screwed. Whatever you do, somebody’s undergarments are going to become contorted, and vague mutterings of lawsuits will be forthcoming. I wouldn’t be a school principal on a bet.
To the original poster in this thread: Please, put down the quotation marks and step slowly away from the keyboard.
Segration of Students
Using "separatism" as a "tool" to "teach" children discipline invites future "separatism." The children were "copying" what "blueprints" they have been given culturally by the "collective" society.
"One" student performed the "negative action." Yes, "tough love" is important. The school system needs to define "tough love" measures.
Using a combination of deep listening, compassion, and experiential modeling and tough love together is what our entire world is missing.
Maybe this vital issue needed to be addressed privately first. Afterwards, create a monthly or bi-weekly general "deep listening" meeting with Principal,Teachers and Students to "pave the way" for understanding "assimilation and connectedness."
Remember the song, "What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love?" Let us take the labels off of each of us. The people that pass us in the street are just "blocks of wood."
When we begin to understand that "each" person is "us" separatism and hatred will abate.
Just look at how we "care" for one another? Do we listen with our "whole heart" when "someone" is talking to us? We are running on a treadmill going nowhere. America needs to slow down. We are all running to our grave. There is no other "real" place we are running.