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Journalism students at H. Grady Spruce High School in East Dallas recently got a challenging assignment: interview family members and turn their memories into news stories. Most of the stories were news to the students, many of whom are children of immigrants.
Legacy Project: Sergio Takes His Teddy Bear On A Harrowing Journey
Sergio is a young man who is twenty-one. He has been through tough life situations. His parents were going through poverty and kept looking for jobs. In East and South Dallas everything and anything could happen and they would go anywhere to get as much as help as possible. For example, his family could not afford food, so they went to their church asking for anything they could give, which turned out to be rotten bread and spoiled milk. His parents were trying to do anything to survive because his mother was pregnant.
When Sergio was a child, he crossed the border twice while his mother crossed it twice, once with her sister and once with her son Sergio. His mother came here and raised money to get an apartment for her child and herself. Finally, Sergio was coming to America for the first time and the second time he had a little sister that was a couple of months old. “I just remember crossing the river, and my mother telling me to cross. My sister kept crying while we crossed my parents were scared out of their wits and were frighten of getting caught. We hid under buses soaking wet and shivering from the cold.” Sergio said calmly. He remembers his mother mentioning a teddy bear he crossed with when he was four year old. He wouldn’t let go of it when he was crossing the border , even when he was asked to let go of it he didn’t to this day he has the teddy bear .
The Mexico border was a 1,951 miles long East to West, but all they needed was to just go straight not even a thousand miles to enter the United States. His parents were happy they made it through and didn’t have to go through it again. Sergio and his parents moved to Texas and from there they have stayed. Sergio is now a grown adult and was going to college at the age of 18 but quit after second semester. He decided to work in construction. He now lives with his parents and his sister in a wonderful house with two dogs. He said “One thing I wish would change, would be the generation of kids and teens now. They think they could do whatever they want and even get whatever they ask for with no responsibility. My sister and I grew up doing things around the house and even going to work and being a good child with no drugs or being spoiled.”
His advice to his little sister is “Never do drugs and stay in school. It might sound cliché, but I know you’re better than that.” Today, Sergio is a young man with a story, like everyone else has their own story and today we share this for tomorrow.
Legacy Project: Lionel Organizes For Mexican American Rights
Crystal City is located in the Southern half of Texas. Known as the spinach capital of the world, its economy is heavily based on farming. Immigrants from Mexico are usually the ones who work on these farms. Unfair wages and work hours were just a few of the many forms of racism in Crystal City. During his senior year in high school in 1970, LC moved here.
When he arrived at Crystal City High School, L couldn’t believe the blatant racism everywhere. Mexicans were openly mocked in the current school newspaper with crude drawings and jokes. Perhaps what made this even worse is the fact that the school staff had approved of the drawings and enjoyed them as much as the students. When Ll realized that this newspaper was too far gone to save, he created his own. Using the library’s printers, he spread a Spanish paper to students and local business owners. By the time the next election for public offices was held, Mexicans had prepared and voted in their own candidates, resulting in the first wave of Mexican officials in Crystal City.
Soon after, L graduated and was accepted in the University of Texas at Austin. Excited to experience something new after Crystal City, L happily began attending. Soon after however, he began to realize that racism was here as well. There were zero Mexican professors in core classes for a university of predominantly Mexican Americans. Mexican history and culture was never taught and all student positions of power were held by Caucasians. Once again, he started a newspaper here to inform the students of the racism. This time however, he caught the attention of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO).
When Ll was approached by MAYO the group was a small band of thirty to fifty students who also wanted equality at UT. After he joined MAYO joined other organizations to form USARAT (United Students Against Racism At Texas). At their first meeting, USARAT unveiled its grand scheme; to take control of the president of UT’s office until their demands for equality were meant. By this time, L had been elected president of MAYO, so he would be instrumental in their plan.
Never mind that it’s the middle of the school day at Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth. The students have their phones out, sending each other notes, drawings, memes, and videos.They turned up the volume on their phones -- the beeps were fast and frantic. “What’s your Kik?" said one girl, asking about a username so she could say "hey" to her friend. Soon it was too much: "Stop kicking me!”
Half a million parents in Texas were suddenly less afraid of deportation when President Obama told the government last month to stop deporting immigrants whose children are American citizens. Two teenagers at Polytechnic High School, Viridiana and John, had opposite reactions to the news.
The required reading at Highland Park High School is still in flux. Some parents convinced administrators to remove books with adult material -- then other parents, alumni and teachers petitioned the administration to reverse that decision. Mostly missing from the public debate has been the voices of teenage students whose classes have been affected. As part of the KERA Yearbook project, we hear from three students about what English class has been like this fall.
A recent dispute in the Dallas suburb of Highland Park over requiring students to read the book The Art of Racing in the Rain was settled today—a committee of teachers, parents and students reviewed the book and found that it can be taught in the classrooms. One thing the debate in Highland Park has shown is that parents and students who object to certain books are also often unhappy with their options for alternative assignments. Some Texas schools have made that process smoother.
A number of retail stores are opening on Thanksgiving Day again this year, to squeeze one more shopping day into their biggest season. Many of the low-wage workers folding shirts, running cash registers, and stocking Frozen sparkle princess dolls will be teenagers. How do teenagers in Texas try cram their family holiday around their shifts?
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we found this same thing at KERA.
Before cracking the cover of A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for English classes at Highland Park High School, a group of 11th graders handed their parents a permission slip. It read: “Some literary selections possess mature content that some individuals may find objectionable.” The latest on reading lists from Highland Park.
StoryCorps is coming to Dallas this week. The oral history project lets ordinary Americans interview each other. A few kids at Polytechnic High School in an economically challenged Ft. Worth neighborhood got a similar opportunity--they were assigned to interview a family member. Here, seniors Moesha Taylor and Ashley Black interview their her mom and dad, respectively.
Sidney Lainez interviews his mom, Stella, about growing up in Bogota, Columbia and in New York City. He finds out where his name came from, and tries to get his mom to admit that he actually has a girl's name.
Watch out, Poly and Dubiski -- I might start telling you to pop an imaginary marshmallow in your mouths to get you to listen...
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Where do teachers go when the 3 p.m. bell rings?
When you’re a kid, you don’t really think they go anywhere. Except home, maybe, to grade papers and plan lessons and think up pop quizzes.
But of course teachers go off and do all sorts of things: They write books and run for office and start businesses and so much more.
Today we begin our new project, The Secret Lives of Teachers, to collect the stories of teachers’ lives after the students leave for the day.
Tell us about the Secret Lives of Teachers – share your own story or tell us about a teacher you know. You can tag your stories on social media with #secretteachers or drop an email to [email protected].
Caption: For Mathias “Spider” Schergen, his Secret Life plays out in a one-car garage out back of his house in Southwest Chicago.
He turned it into a studio, a crowded place full of lumber and wood and paint and scrap metal and odd things like shoes and fabric. Stuff that he fashions into art.
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High schoolers at Aubrey High School in Denton County and Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth share their views on the Dream Act; many of them are “dreamers” themselves. They also weigh in with opinions about sharing educational resources with undocumented students.
All of America has homecoming football games, parades, pep rallies and dances, but no place has a tradition like the Texas homecoming mum. This is no demure flower with a couple of ribbons—it’s a full-body shield of fake flowers and sparkly ribbons and teddy bears with graduation caps. We hear from two seniors getting ready for Coppell High School’s homecoming next weekend, and a mom with hot glue gun who has built a cottage industry out of this Lone-Star tradition.
