Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers by Hilton Kelly

Author:Hilton Kelly [Kelly, Hilton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780415638043
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2012-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

The teacher could do no wrong and the students knew it. As a result, you didn’t have any [discipline] problems—not that many kids caused a problem. The parents were with you at the PTA (Parent Teacher Association)…. Parents came out to see their children perform [during holiday programs] and they were encouraging their children.

(Vera Tyson)

Participants suggested that parents played a supportive role and treated teachers with a great deal of respect.

Teachers worked to uplift communities for the betterment and advancement of both children and families (Foster, 1990, 1991; Noblit and Dempsey, 1996; Siddle Walker, 1996, 2004) but they had to abide by written and unwritten rules about what it meant to be a respectable teacher:

You had to be involved in the entire community. If you lived in a community, you had to visit the various churches and put yourself in their social events. You had to be involved more in the community than you did with [school] integration. With integration, we went to school, we taught, [and] we left. But, in the black schools, you didn’t.

(Jessie Jones)

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