And fifty years later ... students from across the country talk about race in their high schools--and in their lives.Nat Gale, 17 Hartford Public High School Hartford Public High School was founded in 1638. It is the second-oldest secondary school in the United States, second to the Boston Latin School. The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Hartford Public Schools. Hartford, Conn. "I am the only American-born white person in my senior class at Hartford High. I don't pay it any mind. My circle of friends is so integrated--Asian, African-Americans, Latino--all the different colors of the rainbow. In seventh and eighth grade, race was more of a problem because people called me cracker (1) A person who breaks into a computer system without authorization, whose purpose is to do damage (destroy files, steal credit card numbers, plant viruses, etc.). Because a cracker uses low-level hacker skills to do cracking, the terms "cracker" and "hacker" have become and Saltine sal·tine n. A thin crisp cracker sprinkled with coarse salt. Noun 1. saltine - a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking . Two weeks into freshman year, people stopped looking at race because there are so many different faces at the high school. The balance of race in Hartford schools has changed my education. I get more of a well-rounded view of matters. the shooting of Amadou Diallo Amadou Bailo Diallo (September 2, 1975 – February 4, 1999) was a 23-year-old immigrant to the United States from Guinea, who was shot and killed on February 4, 1999, by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers; Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon [an unarmed African immigrant who waas shot dead by New York police New York Police may refer to:
Hia School's Racial Breakdown Hispanic 61% Black 33% White 4% Other 2% Note: Table made from pie graph. Akeisha Nave nave (nāv), in general, all that part of a church that extends from the atrium to the altar and is intended exclusively for the laity. In a strictly architectural sense, however, the term indicates only the central aisle, excluding side aisles. , 17 Highland Park High School Several high schools are known as Highland Park High School including:
Topeka, Kan. "I work in North Topeka at China Inn, and there's not very many black people. They have questions. They see things on TV. Like what do we eat for Thanksgiving. Questions about really good hair or nappy hair. I eat the same thing other people eat for Thanksgiving--turkey! So many people are biracial bi·ra·cial adj. 1. Of, for, or consisting of members of two races. 2. Having parents of two different races. bi·ra nowadays, half black, half white. I don't ever see race as a problem---ever. I feel like sometimes, just being a minority, I have so many more opportunities. And as part Indian, I get money from the tribe." Her School's Racial Breakdown Hispanic 20.5% Black 33.7% White 33.8% Other 9.5% American Indian/ Alaskan 2.5% Note: Table made from pie graph. Ashley Aguirre, 17 Rancho High School Rancho High School is a high school located at 1900 Searles Avenue in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It is part of the Clark County School District. Opened in 1954, Rancho High School was the third high school founded in the Las Vegas Valley. Pico Rivera Pico Rivera (pē`kō rĭvĕr`ə), city (1990 pop. 59,177), Los Angeles co., SW Calif., SE of Los Angeles on the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers; inc. 1958 with the union of Pico and Rivera into one community. , Calif. "My dad is from Guatemala, so I usually say I'm Latina. If I classified myself just as Mexican-American, then I would be eliminating my dad's heritage. Most of my friends are second-generation Mexican-American. None of them are like, I'm all proud of being a Latino.' I don't think anybody really puts a label on themselves anymore. Race isn't an issue. I think there are a lot of people at El Rancho El Rancho may refer to:
I've heard people make fun of them, like saying, 'Oh, you're a real Mexican.' There's a difference of how Mexican you can be, funny as that may sound. Most of the people that recently came from other countries, they have their own cliques and they all talk to each other, whereas people who have been here and grew up here have their own friends. I guess they feel more comfortable being around the people who came to this country illegally because they can relate to them. They have the same struggles." Her School's Racial Breakdown Hispanic 94.8% White 2.7% Other 2.5% Note: Table made from pie graph. Nakia Wright, 17 Glastonbury High School Glastonbury High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Glastonbury High School is the only high school in the town of Glastonbury, Connecticut. It serves around 2,400 students and about 200 faculty members. Glastonbury, Conn. "My parents felt the school system in Hartford was racially segregated, so they sent my brother to live with my aunt in Newington [Conn.] and go to school there. But a friend heard about Project Choice [a voluntary program that buses city children to suburban schools], so my brother could live at home and still go to Newington. I started in Glastonbury in kindergarten, and have always gone to Glastonbury schools. All the black kids came from my bus; we grew up together. When I was younger, I didn't feel different about color, I just felt, like, I went to school out of town. When I was older, people don't like to talk about race, so when it came up it is like, wow, I realized people's idea of black people was pretty strange. A lot of people in Glastonbury have racist parents; I couldn't hang out with certain friends or go over to their houses or ride in the car with them, and that was, like, wow. I catch a school bus at 6:30 in the morning. I spend most of my day in Glastonbury. I hang out with my friends in Glastonbury on the weekends, or I'm here at the house because I don't really know anyone here in Hartford.... Sometimes I think Hartford schools are underrated. Then I asked my cousin in Hartford what she got on her SATs and she said she got a 400 combined, and I said, 'What! On the whole thing?' Their scores are crazy. Project Choice gave me an opportunity to do something more with myself." Her School's Racial Breakdown Hispanic 3% Black 3% White 89% Asian 4.7% Note: Table made from pie graph. |
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