Young people come to school ready to explode. Advocates said the friction might be due more to the rate of change than to the diversity itself. Castlemont has six times as many Latinos as in the late '80s and three times as many APIs. Lin said perceived disparities in the administration's treatment toward one group can create widespread resentment. At Castlemont, she said, African American students believed that teachers were favoring Asian Americans by putting large numbers of them in honors classes.
People know that in a very guttural sense.
Kakashiba's group, also a Youth Together participant, is working on a campaign to get the Berkeley School District to provide students with more personal attention in order to correct academic disparities. Lin added that schools' curriculums are not promoting racial harmony either, saying there are few ethnic studies programs at schools to help students understand the histories of their classmates. Without ethnic studies, she said, students will only react to media-derived images of different cultures rather than a genuine understanding of them. What they're going off of are the stereotypes. The information you receive on-line from AsianWeek is protected by the copyright laws of the United States.