Sentences with phrase «white teachers tell»

Early in the narrative, Gordon's white teacher tells her young black pupils, «You'll all wind up porters and waiters.»

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«There's a scene in Breaking Bad «s first season in which Walter White's hoodrat lab assistant Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) tells Walter he just can't «break bad,» and — when you first hear this snippet of dialogue — you assume what Jesse means is that you can't go from being a law - abiding chemistry teacher to an underground meth cooker... But this, it turns out, was not Jesse's point at all.

«I was not just having difficult conversations with students, but other teachers and administrators also emailed me to tell me I shouldn't be talking about white privilege,» Taylor said.

She has helped me make them each time, and we have used white WW flour, swapped half the butter for unsweetened applesauce, and cut the sugar to 1 cup, so she can tell her teacher she has made «marginally healthier brownies»!

WHITE PLAINS — Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton told some 300 people at a School Safety Symposium at Purchase College Wednesday parents, teachers, police, fire and other first responders need to work together to help stave off incidents of violence like the Newtown, CT tragedy.

I remember when I was young, the teacher in the kindergarten told us a story called Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

In Doubt, Flynn wears his nails long, a trait meant to signify the wolf, and in Monsieur Lazhar, Alice tells her teacher that the wolf (from Jack London's White Fang) is her favorite animal, thereby referencing Flynn's counterpart.

For example, Delpit sees a problem when a typical white, middle - class teacher uses a passive communication style with her low - income black students, such as asking them to take their seats instead of telling them to take their seats.

But it does not tell us whether teacher disagreements about black students mean that black teachers are overly optimistic or white teachers are overly pessimistic.

Tatum told the audience that it doesn't matter whether teachers are black or white — it's about how you are going to do the work.

White Teachers / Diverse Classrooms is replete with examples of practice and telling insights that will engage teachers in practice or in Teachers / Diverse Classrooms is replete with examples of practice and telling insights that will engage teachers in practice or in teachers in practice or in service.

On one occasion, she saw a burly white male teacher telling a group of black teenagers that they were stupid and that they had better realize it.

In her book Ghetto Schooling, Jean Anyon, former chairperson of the education department at Rutgers University — Newark, describes administrators at a typical school in 1992 and 1993 as buck - passing incompetents and teachers as tough and resentful of outsiders (especially white ones) looking to tell them how to do their jobs.

, Jean Anyon, former chairperson of the education department at Rutgers University — Newark, describes administrators at a typical school in 1992 and 1993 as buck - passing incompetents and teachers as tough and resentful of outsiders (especially white ones) looking to tell them how to do their jobs.

But from some White teachers, I hear the «if you haven't taught, don't tell me how to do my job» mantra used as a blanket for everyone from Bill Gates to the parents and community advocates where they teach.

The teacher, who was white, told my mother that I moved around too much and finished assignments too quickly.

My brother's teacher told him, «Hey, you know how they say white men can't jump?

Black teachers told researchers that superiors, coworkers, and customers — in this case, parents — often viewed them as less competent than their white peers.

Madison Metropolitan School District officials tell 27 News 54 percent of students in Madison are students of color but just 12 percent of teachers are not white.

Lara White, a new language arts teacher for Milner's middle school grades, said she makes a point of telling students who are used to staff turnover, «We're not going anywhere.»

Teachers are generally white and mayhave been told that their ancestors had to assimilate.

The head of the state teachers union told me last fall that White excelled at «behind - the - curtains work» to the point of being «autocratic,» suggesting White's enemies hated him for the same reason his allies liked him so much: He was dogged about getting what he wanted.

Twenty - four beautiful poems in different voices and quiet pastel illustrations tell the stirring story of daring young black girls who attended a school set up by white teacher Prudence Crandall, and how, together, they defied bigotry in 1833 Connecticut.

In the acclaimed TV drama Breaking Bad, high school chemistry teacher Walter White has a big secret — he doesn't tell his wife Skyler that he and his former student Jesse Pinkman have begun «cooking» and selling meth.