You MUST be a spy in the district & town where I teach....................amazingly spot on!!!!!!! Let’s see, these are some of the 2nd graders I have this year............Dalemonte ( pronounced: day-luh-montay), Artemas,Sir Derrius ( no, I did not make that up!)..............I could go on & on.
I really have not heard this stated in such clear terms; of course there will be poverty if you have many kids & no resources. The people it is draining is us, the taxpayer. I don’t see it stopping if my conservative state of Mississippi is giving out a million programs & benefits. They are coming out w/ a new program called ABC’s to deal w/ the 0-3 year olds who are living like vegetables at home. ( Don’t even get me started on my friends who work in early childhood & talk about home visits were the child is placed in a high chair in front of a blairing tv ALL DAY...........)
No, I live in northeastern Ohio, and teach at an adult medical vocational school where, whenever we get "black" students from the inner city, we usually have to work extra with them.
And, since most of our students are females, they too have those melodic but stereotypical made-up first names that narrow their job possibilities because of the racial stereotyping going on in the Human Resource departments.
A few years ago, at an employment agency I worked at, "blacks" and black sounding names were put in a file called "12". We all knew what that meant.