From elementary to college, students, teachers, and school officials have been having difficult conversations in and out of the classrooms. ICS was no exception.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) Newspaper published an article by Marlon A. Walker on Monday, November 14, 2016 about the post-election classroom discussions. Bellow is an excerpt from the article:
Principal Chad Velde-Cabrera was greeting students getting off the bus at the International Community School Wednesday morning when a student’s question stopped him in his tracks.
“Are they gonna send me back to my country?” the boy asked.
International Community School is a DeKalb County elementary school where half of the students are immigrants and refugees. The boy’s sentiment was shared by countless others that day, Velde-Cabrera said. He was prepared.
“I sent an email to my staff that morning, letting them know our role is to carve out time today for kids to talk, express their feelings, get it out there,” he said. “Through whatever they’re feeling, they (need to) know they have classmates and a teacher to support them and make sure nothing’s going to happen to them.”
Metro Atlanta schools are seeing some effects of a nasty election play out in their halls as students seek answers to lingering questions and teachers react to the election results.
…“Threatening, abusive behavior will not be tolerated in any way and such behavior will be dealt with without delay,” DeKalb County School District officials said in a statement.
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