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i think that was one of the best essays i have ever read. it was so honest and i really was moved thinking about how the white public school system has treated minorities and labeled them as slow and really caused so many different kinds of problems for "different" children. it is so sad that the student in the letter was ashamed of his culture and his hair and his family heritage. i know that the poor teacher had probably never even thought that this student had grown up differently and was not "slow" just merely at a different place in the learning process. i really hate how stuck on labels our schools have become... children develop sooooooooooo differently and uniquely and we have started punishing the ones who aren't quick and ready to read at five, or ready to do math in kindergarten... i am going to photocopy this letter and put it in my desk when i am teaching to remind me to investigate a little more and look a little deeper before placing judgement or a label on a student.

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