{"id":12639,"date":"2012-03-09T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12639"},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:52:41","slug":"has-anyone-seen-this-in-their-newspaper-or-tv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12639","title":{"rendered":"Has Anyone Seen This In Their Newspaper Or TV News ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0I realize that this is long, but please read the entire story. It is disturbing.<\/div>\n

On February 26, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York<\/a>\u00a0released the following Press Release:<\/p>\n

In Case You Missed It<\/h3>\n

13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the Rochester City School District\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Over her essay on Frederick Douglass.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the\u00a0Frederick Douglass\u00a0Foundation of New York\u00a0presented<\/a>\u00a0the first\u00a0Spirit of Freedom\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student.\u00a0\u00a0Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass\u2019 first autobiography the\u00a0Narrative of the Life<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was never entered.\u00a0\u00a0It offended her teachers so much that, after harassment from teachers and school administrators at School #3, Miss Williams was forced to leave the school.<\/div>\n
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We at the Frederick Douglass Foundation honored her because her essay actually demonstrates that she understood the autobiography, even though it might seem a bit esoteric to most 13-year olds.\u00a0\u00a0In her essay, she quotes part of the scene where Douglass\u2019 slave master catches his wife teaching then slave Frederick to read.\u00a0\u00a0During a speech about how he would be useless as a slave if he were able to read, Mr. Auld, the slave master, castigated his wife.<\/div>\n
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Miss Williams quoted Douglass quoting Mr. Auld:\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there will be no keeping him. It will forever unfit him to be a slave<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n
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Miss Williams personalized this to her own situation.\u00a0\u00a0She reflected on how the \u201cwhite teachers\u201d do not have enough control of the classroom to successfully teach the minority students in Rochester.\u00a0\u00a0While she herself is more literate than most, due to her own perseverance and diligence, she sees the fact that so many of the other \u201cso-called \u2018unteachable\u2019\u201d students aren\u2019t learning to read as a form of modern-day slavery.\u00a0\u00a0Their illiteracy holds them back in society.<\/div>\n
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Her call to action was then in her summary: \u201cA grand price was paid in order for us to be where we are today; but in my mind we should be a lot further<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0so again I encourage the white teachers to instruct and I encourage my people to not just be a student, but become a learner.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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This offended her English teacher so much that the teacher copied the essay for other teachers and for the Principal.\u00a0After that, Miss Williams\u2019 mother and father started receiving phone calls from numerous teachers, all claiming that their daughter is \u201cangry.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Miss Williams, mostly a straight-A student, started receiving very low grades, and she was kicked out of class for laughing and threatened with in-school suspension.<\/div>\n
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There were several meetings with teachers and administrators, but all failed to answer Miss Williams\u2019 mother\u2019s questions.\u00a0The teachers refused to show her the tests and work that she had supposedly performed so poorly on.\u00a0\u00a0Instead, the teachers and administrators branded her a problem.<\/div>\n
Unable to take anymore of the persecution, they pulled her from School #3.\u00a0\u00a0Wanting to try another school, they were quickly informed that that school was filled and told to try \u201cthis school.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0During her first day at this new school, she witnessed four fights, and other students asked her if she was put here because she fights too much.<\/div>\n
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Long story short, they took an exceptional student, with the radical idea that kids should learn to read, and put her in a school of throwaway students who are even more unmanageable than the average student in her previous school.\u00a0\u00a0To protect their daughter, her parents have had to remove her from school, and her mother has had to quit her job so she can take care of Miss Williams.<\/div>\n
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To date, the administrators of School #3 have refused to release her records, even though she no longer attends the school, and they have repeatedly given her mother the run around.\u00a0\u00a0We at the Frederick Douglass Foundation have contacted school administrators in regards to this situation and have also been told to hit the pavement.<\/div>\n
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That\u2019s what we intend to do.\u00a0\u00a0If this school will sacrifice the welfare of an above-average student whose essay, that they asked her to write, they find offensive, we intend to make everyone aware of this monstrous injustice.\u00a0\u00a0The school has a job, and it is not doing it.\u00a0\u00a0We would like as many folks as possible to call the Principal of School #3 and complain about this injustice.\u00a0\u00a0Her name is Miss Connie Wehner, and she can be reached at (585) 454-3525.\u00a0\u00a0This treatment of Jada Williams cannot stand.<\/p>\n

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