I purposely don't write many things about my job because it is a school. I want to protect my students, but when they do something amazing, I want to share it with my friends.
I help coach girl's basketball at my school. We ended our season with a record of 4-3 and barely made into the playoffs. We had to face an unbeaten team in the other division. We were the underdogs. We went in and played an amazing game and defeated this team. Next round, we went in and played our hearts out. My team lost in the semi-finals by 3 points. Tears were shed, but also it is how we handled the loss at a very hostile school.
Some students at the school we played at were not school appropriate. Racial comments were made to my students and my students kept their cool. The most disappointing thing is that these things were reported the admin/staff and students stopped when the admin was around, but were not removed from the school. Therefore, more comments continued. Example: Students were chanting "Immigrants" we walked into the gym. I would include that I worked at a 75% minority school and low income school. We are looked at being the "ghetto" school.
After the game, we were getting on the bus, more racial comments were said. Another teacher and I turned around and ask the students to please walk away and leave us alone. The on-site officer walked up, he told us to just get on the bus and leave. He was condescending to us, the teachers and didn't address the students for their inappropriate behavior or ask them to walk away.
I disappointed at the other school because at our school, we don't tolerate bigotry. I watched this school blow it off like "boys will be boys." Racial slurs are not.
No comments:
Post a Comment