Monday, August 8, 2011

St Paul's Espanola- English lesson


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The Espanola Youth Center -hope for the small town's youth



The St. Paul Youth Center Old Schoolhouse is a remnant of the days of segregation, but now a center of hope. It is the first black schoolhouse in Flagler County, Florida, in the town of Espanola. This settlement was originally set up for logging and turpentine production. Back then, two separate societies lived, and in 1972 Flagler was the last district to desegregate in Florida when a federal judge threw out the district's argument that there were "no blacks" in the county, only "Orientals." This legacy that has mostly disappeared, but still lingers in the neglect the small town sometimes receives from county and school administrations.  The Schoolhouse was restored by Rev. Frank Giddens of the St. Paul’s Baptist Church, and is used to house an academic tutoring program and summer camp for the town’s disadvantaged youth.

Space is cramped, and there are no summer programs planned or given for the children there. Their peers elsewhere enjoy theme parks, field trips and other opportunities, transported by school district buses that never reach the small town. Thanks to the generosity of donors and sponsors like Bobby and Eileen Boyd however, the children of Espanola have been able to break through some of these barriers and enjoy a normal summer. Their generosity extends beyond summer camp, but has also furnish supplies and equipment for an academic tutoring program at the old Schoolhouse, helping the kids there improve their reading, vocabulary and math skills.

More information can be found at www.espanolayouth.blogspot.com. All deductions are fully tax deductible.

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Friday, June 24, 2011

Back in the days of desegregation - school district told federal judge that "blacks did not exist"

This one should be good for a chuckle. The Old Schoolhouse is located in Flagler County. Flagler was the last school district to desegregate in Florida, when a federal judge threw out the district's argument that there were "no blacks" in the county only "Orientals." Said the federal judge: “In the long march from Mansfield this Court has seen, heard, or heard of everything - everything, that is, until today.”  (United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1972. No. 71-2323)


Excerpt from the Court Decision: 




457 F.2d 1402

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
FLAGLER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., Defendants, James O.
Craig, Supt. of Schools, School Board of Flagler
County, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 71-2323.

United States Court of Appeals,
Fifth Circuit.

March 29, 1972.

Stanley D. Kupiszewski, Jr., DeLand, Fla., for defendant-appellant; James O. Craig, pro se.

Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Brian K. Landsberg, Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John L. Briggs, U. S. Atty., John D. Roberts, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jacksonville, Fla., David L. Norman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roderick N. McAulay, Atty. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and INGRAHAM and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
1.
As a last gasp in the struggle against desegregation in the Flagler County (Florida) School District, Superintendent James O. Craig, now alone and unaided by the school board, appeals pro se from the District Court's order enjoining the operation of racially segregated public educational facilities and requiring the immediate implementation of a unitary school system, including compliance with the semi-annual reporting provision of Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District, 5 Cir., 1970, 426 F.2d 1364.1

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In the long march from Mansfield this Court has seen, heard, or heard of everything-everything, that is, until today.
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Here the District Court, after finding that Flagler County was operating a dual school system, ordered the immediate implementation of a unitary school system on August 7, 1970. The School District resisted, arguing that it did not know what the term "race" or "ethnic origin" contemplated. It contended that it could not assure that Negro students were not being discriminated against because it did not have a Congressional definition of the term "Negro." What began as an ingenius quandry soon became disingenuous when HEW offered these definitions:

Negro: -
persons considered by themselves, by the school or by the community to be of African or Negro origin.

Oriental:
persons considered by themselves, by the school or by the community to be of Asian origin.

Similar guidelines were announced for identifying American Indians, Spanish Surnamed Americans and All Others. Thereupon, the School District blithely filed a Supplemental Report identifying all teachers and students in the District as "Orientals," since they were so "considered by the school." Therefore, it reasoned, there was no discrimination, since there was only one race in the entire school district (i. e., "Orientals") and it could not be found to be in noncompliance with Constitutional standards.

With no surprise to anyone the District Court summarily rejected this absurdity and to the credit of the School District and the good sense of its members, the Board consented to a decree, avoiding any further embarrassment by urging that contention in this Court. The School Superintendent, who was named as a party-defendant in the suit below as a matter of form, appeals singly pro se from the District Court's order.

His argument is that he cannot enforce the District Court's order because it contains no definition of what is a Negro and therefore, he contends, the order is vague and uncertain. Justice Douglas's statement in Tijerina v. Henry, 1970, 398 U.S. 922, 90 S.Ct. 1718, 26 L.Ed.2d 86, sufficiently answers that argument-"One thing is not vague or uncertain, however, and that is that those who discriminate against members of this and other minority groups have little difficulty in isolating the objects of their discrimination." The record indicates that in the past the School District has apparently had no difficulty identifying Negroes for the purposes of segregating them. For desegregation they can be identified with similar ease.

Appellant's other argument, that he does not know how to implement the District Court's mandate that discrimination in the system be rooted out completely by use of non-discriminatory assignment of students (as the Trial Court suggests, on the basis of alphabetical order) is without any redeeming merit.

Whether viewed as frivolous under our Rule 20, which it clearly is, or on the merits-or more accurately, the total lack of merits-the appeal utterly fails.

Affirmed.

1. The United States instituted the present action nearly six months after the entry of a consent decree providing a desegregation plan for the county, because the first semi-annual report required by that decree failed to include statistical data relating to the racial composition of student bodies and faculties

2. Jackson v. Rawdon, 5 Cir., 1956, 235 F.2d 93, cert. denied, 352 U.S. 925, 77 S.Ct. 221, 1 L.Ed.2d 160
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See, e. g., Hernandez v. Driscoll Consolidated Independent School District, 2 Race Rel.L.R. 329 (S.D.Tex., January 11, 1957). There, the school district tried to circumvent an order of the State Supertendent of Public Instruction, promulgated as a result of a court order in Delgado v. Bastrop Ind. School Dist., Civil No. 388 (W.D.Tex., June 15, 1948). The Superintendent's order had permitted segregation of Mexican Americans in the first grade only-as a means of combatting a prevalent language deficiency. Driscoll Independent School District's coup was to keep Mexican American students in the first grade for the first four years of their educational careers...

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What is the St. Paul Youth Center - Espanola, Florida

St. Paul's Youth Center, Espanola, Florida, is a small church-sponsored youth operation that aims to improve local community pride, encourage Espanola's youth to fulfill their dreams, inspire them to succeed, open up new vistas and opportunities for insight, and build a sense of belonging and self-worth.

Description   
Here at St. Paul Youth Center our motto is: Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.


Mission
St. Paul Youth Center is here to provide access to a range of encouragement. Here to inspire, and empower. Here to emphasize student success, and embrace excellence and make our children to be the best they want to be. We all would like to see success. Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it will be achieved. Dream great dreams, and make them come true. Do it today. You are very unique. In all the history of the world there was or is or will be anyone else like you. What you believe yourself to be, you are.


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