School has metal detectors and police. Student is fulfilling expectations all around him.
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I remember the exact moment when my Sunnyvale high school got cops, metal detectors and fences. The city closed the school downtown and all the brown kids enrolled at the white school -- which was named for John C. Fremont. This isn't difficult to sort, really.
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Ugh, that's really awful. And I don't know why but I would've expected more from Sunnyvale.
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The entire valley was red lined into the 70s e.g., Korean war brides in our development rarely left their house.
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I lived in Palo Alto for better part of 4 yrs (as a Stanford undergrad) and wish I had gotten to know the region's history better--it was not something people talked about much, even in the history dept.
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Lived there most of my life and didn't really get it til I tried to buy a house north of Cal - in the white square mile of Albany which only used "sealed bids" in 1988. My realtor was a little brown lady with an accent. lol
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I was in a school like this. Nothing in school policy alone is going to fix this.
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True that schools can only do what they can do–but within those limits, they can do a lot. And there _are_ successful examples of urban schools with mostly working-class & poor student bodies that have found a better way of maintaining order & disciplinehttps://www.nyclu.org/en/publications/report-safety-dignity-alternatives-over-policing-schools-2009 …
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Yes, schools need 2 do better in valuing student voices, establishing clearer responsibilities 4 authorities, refusing harsh punishments. Unfortunate it isn’t a given. But uphill battle w/out structural changes tht deal w/ inequality & the pressures it puts on communities.
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What are this kid’s chances? He made a mistake and behaved like an idiot as a teenager and it seems like a life sentence. Who’s going to rehabilitate him? Where’s his future? Who’s going to help him turn it around?
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