>>Subject: !*Call for support of Black high school students in Seattle
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>>>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 15:39:16 -0800 (PST)
>>>From: Greg Jackson <gda7@yahoo.com>
>>>Subject: Call for support of Black high school students in Seattle
>>>
>>>> Today, the Black Student Alliance at Roosevelt High School is
>>>meeting to decide whteher or not they and their allies will walk out
>>>in protest.
>>>>
>>>> The demands of the Black Student Alliance at Roosevelt High School
>>>are:
>>>>
>>>> 1.) More Black teachers at Roosevelt; a number of teachers in
>>>porportion to the number of Blacks in the student body (8%). No
>>>removal of Black
>>>> teachers unvoluntarily until the 8% porportion is reached.
>>>>
>>>> 2.) Black history as a required course for graduation for ALL seniors.
>>>> And another Black studeis course of the students choice to be added.
>>>>
>>>> 3.) A Human Rights Review panel made up of students from all ethnic
>>>> clubs on campus to evaluate suspensions and expulsions, trained by
>>>> Seattle Human Rights Commission officers.
>>>>
>>>> Black students are 8% of the student body, but 40% of the suspensions
>>>> and expulsions at Roosevelt high School! There are only 2 Black
>>>> teachers at RHS out of 100! And only one Black history class.
>>>>
>>>> Call 206-729-3200, ask for Mrs. Bannister and tell her YOU support
>>>these students righteous demands.
>>
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