Bookmarking this one. I’m in Los Angeles, and yes, we’re seeing it too. My students are mostly Latino, but they have no fear of mouthing off to anyone, including our very tall, fairly distinguished looking African American principal. Latino students can be startlingly racist, and delight in calling blacks “Chimpanzees” and muttering “fried chicken” every time they see one. Black Americans may find this soft approach backfires badly on them in the majority Latino communities.
The worst classroom I ever set foot in was the ESL class full of Hispanic girls. Talk about attitude and mouth. Zero respect for anyone. Why they were in ESL was anyone’s guess because they spoke perfect English but the school gets $$$$ for ELS so why not. And it gets them out of another teacher’s hair for an hour.
I have seen this type of thing, too. White kids generally avoid blacks when they have a chance, but Hispanic kids are much more likely to stand their ground and to even try to provoke a response.
Anyone who thinks public schools are socially integrated needs to visit one during lunchtime. In cafeterias, things are very tribal. Whites with whites, blacks with blacks, Hispanics with Hispanics.
There are variations, of course. Hispanics and Asians will hang with whites if there aren't enough of them in a smaller school to have their own group.
The only place I've seen real integration is with sports teams, and that lasts only for the duration of the practice or game. Afterwards, they go their separate ways.
Having said that, interracial dating was quite a local trend recently, but appears to be dying out. Not saying it's right, but it is what happens... white girls pay an enormous social cost after having dated a black boy. I've learned through conversations with former students that a "boycott" or shunning of these girls can follow them for a very long time.
My Filipino bud who’s in my circle is sending his daughter back to the Philippines to continue her studies. In her school, the pc-ness was nauseating.
The flag ceremony starts in spanish with no English TL for the rest of the Asian students. There’s no such thing as ‘top students’ as everyone should be “equal” and no one can stand when you have the answer to the teacher’s question as it will “insult” the stupid kids in the class.
It was explained that in the Phil, everyone has a school uniform from kindergarten to grade to high school, very structured and discilpines and is the total reverse of American p[ublic HS. Everyone competes in each class for top honors and pc-ness is non-existent. You know it’s bad when a parent is sending his/her kid to a 3rd world country for better schooling...