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RSS FeedsZero suspensions. Meditation. Feeding families. How schools in Baltimore - a place Trump called `rat infested´ - are succeeding
(The Star Movies)

 
 

19 september 2019 12:00:54

 
Zero suspensions. Meditation. Feeding families. How schools in Baltimore - a place Trump called `rat infested´ - are succeeding
(The Star Movies)
 


“Without community, there is no liberation” — Audrey LordeBALTIMORE, MD.—The row houses are a picture of gloom on this rainy day in October 2018 as they glower down the sparsely treed streets of West Baltimore’s Mondawmin area. For decades, these homes, many shuttered and boarded up, have witnessed traumas too many to be told.Yet this is a neighbourhood that resists. Nearby, a huge graffiti tribute to Freddie Gray — who died in police custody in 2015 — declares its defiance.“Does anybody hear us pray, for Michael Brown or Freddie Gray,” crooned Prince in a protest song named after the city, following unrest over Gray’s death.Other encouraging signs of resilience are the city’s inner-city schools.It ought to be a grim task for neighbourhood schools to nurture and nourish children who come from communities that continue to be traumatized in a state where slavery was legal until 1864, a year after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. A place that according to American President Donald Trump’s ahistorical views is a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” From Jim Crow laws and policies that led to housing discrimination, job discrimination, poverty and criminalization, African Americans have been subjected to centuries of relentless racism, the outcomes of which are painfully apparent in Baltimore. Yet — despite Trump’s rhetoric — the two elementary schools this reporter visits are anything but grim. A few minutes’ drive from the shuttered houses in Mondawmin is Robert W. Coleman Elementary School, from pre-kindergarten to Grade 5. The other school, City Springs Elementary School, which goes up to Grade 8, is on the eastern side of town.They echo with the sounds of shuffling feet and giggling kids and the voices of teachers giving errant kids a talking-to. “The last time I counted,” says principal Carlillian Thompson at Robert W. Coleman ...


 
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