hctiB G: Desegregation | The G Bitch Spot

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hctiB G: Desegregation

by G Bitch

originally posted March 9, 2007
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Segregation and isolation from the mainstream might be manifest in her [teacher Gladys Hernandez]  students’ low test scores–she didn’t contest that–but segregation, she said, also constricts their lives and misshapes their sense of the world.
“I think that children can overcome the stigma of poverty…But, what they cannot overcome is the stigma of separation. That is like a damned spot on their being…a spot that, no matter what success you have, you can’t wipe it out. And that’s what segregation does to children; they see themselves as apart and separate because of the language they speak, because of the color of their skin.” (124)

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Freddie Morris, the principal of Wish School, in the North End [of Hartford, CN], testified next about