I Wasn't Ready When a New Slur Hit My Middle School Class. I Will Be Next Time (Opinion)
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Anti-immigrant rhetoric does not stop at a school's gates, even where many students are immigrants.
Jacobo Coronel Jacobo Coronel is an English-language development teacher in Los Angeles and an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University. He is most passionate about working with emergent bilinguals. National anti-immigrant rhetoric does not stop at a school’s gates. It enters classrooms through the language students use with one another, shaping who belongs, who feels safe, and who is treated as (fully) American. Yet, many educators, myself included, are unprepared to confront this language when it’s spoken by the very students it targets. In my Southern California middle school…
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