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I remember my grandmother showed me an old photo of her back in Elementary School. This picture/school was taken in Washington. My grandmother told me she hated her teacher because she was very rude. Not only to her but to other students of color as well. My grandmother only spoke Spanish, and was still learning English. Every time she would speak her language, she would get hit by a ruler. Not only that, if she didn't know the answer to a question she would also get hit by the ruler.  She would get hit on the hand pretty hard. My grandmother also told me students of color were not allowed to go restroom, so the teacher would force them to pee on their seats. During recess the kids were segregated. Whites on one side, and Mexicans, Hispanics, Natives/Indigenous, and African American on other side. The kids would complain to their parents, but unfortunately they couldn't do anything. So kids would cry on their way to school because of how bad they were mistreating them.

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Here we have the rich and the foreign trying to claim the beaches, when the beaches are public. This relates to TE by what I believe is an actual colonization.

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In this article the teacher did a Nazi salute in front of the class, and one of the student had to apologize to the teacher because he made him look bad. The school, and the teacher failed to understand what they did was wrong. As a teacher you should know what is right and wrong, what is sensitive, be open minded, and have diversity. Our education system is failing to teach the students, making a safe place for students, and is not making the schools/teachers being held accountable for the actions they are taking.

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An Alabama school system's "disconcerting" response to complaints from a Jewish student that a teacher had classmates perform a Nazi salute shows a lack of commitment to diversity, an organization that promotes civil and human rights said Friday.

Mountain Brooks Schools issued a statement saying it was "deeply apologetic for the pain" caused by a lesson that "lacked sensitivity." The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute questioned actions by the system, which previously ditched a diversity program produced by an organization that combats antisemitism.

"It is in this light that we find a more recent incident involving the Nazi salute displayed by students in a Mountain Brook classroom particularly disconcerting, as it shows a conspicuous lack of preparation on the part of administrators to discuss, teach and lead in this area," the city-owned educational institute said in a statement.

A spokesman for the school system, located in a nearly all-white, wealthy suburb of Birmingham, did not immediately return an email message seeking comment.

In a story first reported by the Birmingham-based Southern Jewish Life, a Jewish student said he was shocked last month when a history teacher at Mountain Brook High School had classmates stand and give a stiff-armed Nazi salute during a lesson on the way symbols change.

The student, Ephraim Tytell, told CBS affiliate WIAT-TV that the class was learning about what the Nazi salute meant before it became a hateful gesture.

"He [the teacher] explained to us that in America we used to do that before WWII and everything and then he proceeded to show us, ask us to stand up to salute the flag and he and everyone else did the Nazi salute," Ephraim told CBS 42. "I felt upset, unsure of what's going on. Just kind of shocked."

Tytell said school officials reprimanded him and told him to apologize to the teacher after he shared a video and photos of the incident on social media.

"They proceeded to tell me that I'm making Mountain Brook look bad for uploading the video and sharing it and asked me to apologize to my teacher, which I refused to," he told WIAT. "The day after he made our class, and our class only, put up our phones and he moved me from sitting in the back of the class to right next to him."

The lesson was meant to show how symbols change by demonstrating that something very similar to what's now widely known as a Nazi salute was used before World War II to salute the U.S. flag. Called the "Bellamy Salute," it was ditched in 1942 for the right-hand-over-the-heart gesture following the United States' entry into the war.

On Tuesday, the school system issued a statement saying the video and photos shared online "are not representative of the lesson" and no one tried to teach students how to do a Nazi salute.

With blowback continuing, the system issued a more conciliatory statement on Thursday, that said in part: "There are more effective ways to teach this subject without recreating painful, emotional responses to history's atrocities."

"To improve our instructional strategies, we will continue to work with the Alabama Holocaust Education Center to advance training for our teachers surrounding Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and its symbols," said the statement. The system said it stands "absolutely and unequivocally" against antisemitism.

The Birmingham Jewish Federation said the system's follow-up statement was a "direct result" of conversations it had with leaders of the school system. School officials "fully recognize and understand the insensitivity of the instruction in the classroom that day and the absence of a safe space for learning for the students," said the Jewish organization.

William Galloway, a spokesman for Mountain Brooks Schools, said it was against system policy to comment on whether the teacher remained in the classroom.

Last year, Mountain Brook's school system responded to community complaints about a diversity program produced by the Anti-Defamation League by dropping the lessons. Schools had begun using the material after antisemitic events, including a video of a student with a swastika drawn on his body.

Opponents claimed the lessons focused too much on race and gender and criticized the ADL as being too political.

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Alabama school system faulted after teacher accused of having class perform Nazi salute

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An Alabama school system's "disconcerting" response to complaints from a Jewish student that a teacher had classmates perform a Nazi salute shows a lack of commitment to diversity, an organization that promotes civil and human rights said Friday. Mountain Brooks Schools issued a statement saying it was "deeply apologetic for the pain" caused by a lesson that "lacked sensitivity."

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I will be talking about some barriers that are faced when being bilingual. I will be talking about a Cristo G perspective about these barriers. Cristo comes from a Latin background, his first language is Spanish then was taught English in school, and he was born here in the United States. Cristo speaks about how he can't really fit in, "It doesn't matter how much English I know, it will always sound like I have an accent." He also speaks on how sometime he forget his vocabulary when trying to communicate with other people, and since most people speak English, he feels he is losing his mother language (Spanish). This connects with TE by learning a language could be difficult, but when once you learn it, you feel you lose your own language just trying to fit in with the society. Also for him learning English is must, and necessary thing to do, but when someone else learns another language as a hobby. It deemed as cool, and classy. There a double standard that just don't seem right to me.

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We see here that the American Education System is putting too much weight on their teachers, and yet they give them so little resources. This teacher and many other teachers only want best for their students but the education system is doing nothing. Teachers have to work with what they got, spend some of their own money or work in terrible conditions by the school. The education system is failing them. The students and teachers.

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Here we have a women who has Autism explaining some of many traits that people with Autism have. Remember their is a spectrum when it come to people with Autism. So not everyone who has Autism experience this but personally for me I have.

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Disney let this high school come in and performed in front of many people dehumanizing Natives Americans. The school doesn’t want to change their mascot or uniform because of tradition. Disney should have known better, and the school needs to change. Tradition or not, they should know this is wrong. Natives American have been protesting for change in school mascots, names, etc.. They been protesting for so long but people are to ignorant too change it because of tradition.

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“Autistic Masking means hiding behind an exterior that isn’t you in order to fit in socially or in certain settings or situations. Also in order to avoid the risk of being shunned, laughed at, bullied and so on. Autistic people are frequently masking because they have experienced getting bullied just by being themselves. This takes a lot of EMOTIONAL and COGNITIVE energy which in the end will send the Autistic person into burnout. Masking means SUPPRESSING your true emotions so much that you lose a sense of who you really are and start feeling like a fake.
This turns into depression.
As Autistic girls enter their teens they become especially good at masking, unfortunately this means becoming diagnosed very late in life.
Why girls? Because of social conditioning.” -thespectrumgirl
I encourage you to read the rest of post on instagram, because it is informative.

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I would like to talk about myself and one of my family members with invisible disability, and our experiences in school. I, myself have ASD which is Autism Spectrum Disorder, and so does my younger sister. I wasn’t diagnosed until my high school years, while my younger sister was diagnosed in her elementary years. While we both have autism, we’re on a different level of spectrums. My younger sister needs a lot of extra help with learning and with normal day to day tasks at home. For example showering. In school, she gets bullied a lot because they know she different, and teachers tend to give up on her because of her disability. She knows they have given up on her, so she doesn’t try to learn. The bullying doesn’t stop, and they just pass her to next grade like nothing. My younger sister knows she different, which is not bad thing. She always laughing, full of smiles, and joy. It rare for her to cry, when she does it really heartbreaking. Their times when she comes crying from school because of bullying is so bad, and feels like she really not part of the school. The school, and teachers do nothing to stop the bullying or help to make her feel included. While my experience in school was something a little different. I actually didn’t have a hard time learning or doing day to day tasks. In school I wouldn’t talk, always by myself, had a hard time making friends, and sometimes teachers would always pick on me. I also couldn’t understand social cues. For example when a teacher would make a joke, I couldn’t understand why it was funny but everyone in class was laughing so I joined them and laugh even though I didn’t know why or when my mother signaled me to come closer by moving her neck to the left. I thought she was stretching her neck, or that it was broken. I tried everything to make sure I didn’t make myself noticeable or stand out, I did this up to the way to high school, from there things were getting too difficult for me to fit in. I knew I was different but just didn’t know how, and since I masked so well it hard to diagnose me, and that resulted to me losing myself from masking so often and having depression. I feel like the school and the teachers should do more for her than give up. They should actually help my younger sister get an education, make her feel included. Even though she different, she still can understand things that other don’t. She is not stupid, she has feelings as well. As for me I felt like if I was diagnosed sooner, things would have make sense to me, and have an understanding, as well probably could have received accommodations. As future educator don’t give up on a student who has any form of disability, don’t make them feel any less, instead make them feel included in the classroom. Give them the help they need, and the access they need. If you think or see a student who might have a disability. Don’t be afraid to have a meeting with their parents and school to get them checked. You are doing the student a favor by giving them the help they need.