The White Rhino: A Blog about Education and Latino Issues
Chicago Public Schools debate coach grateful students accepted virtual experience
today at 9:42 am
Can our school’s young debate team survive during the pandemic? I doubted students would show up to online debate meetings and attend virtual debate tournaments. With our Chicago Public Schools debate team starting its third year, I thought remote learning would devastate our team’s participation.
In September, over fifty students showed up to our first virtual meeting.
This year’s topic helped secure past members’ return and new members’ involvement. When students heard we’d debate criminal justice reform, the debate team experience sold itself.
As students learned the criminal reform cases about eliminating money bail, big-data policing, requiring police body cameras, and defunding the police, they kept returning.
This Saturday, our Hancock College Prep team will compete in the fifth and final debate tournament of the regular season.
Read about our experience at the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues Web site.
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About the Blogger
Since 1995, Ray has been an English teacher in the Chicago Public Schools.
In 2017, thanks to a former student, Ray received a Distinguished Secondary Teacher Award from Northwestern University.
In March 2013, The White Rhino tied for second place in the Best Blog category of the Education Writers Association’s national writing contest.
Ray earned an M.A. in Writing, with distinction, and a B.A. in English and Secondary Education from DePaul University. He’s been a National Board Certified Teacher for over ten years.
He graduated from a neighborhood Chicago public high school.
His writing aired on National Public Radio and Chicago Public Radio many times. His editorials appeared in the Chicago Tribune and on CNN’s Schools of Thought blog, as well as on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ Web site. He’s also written articles for NPR’s Latino USA, Latino Rebels, and NewsTaco.
Ray is also a powerlifter and an aspiring guitarist.
For thirty years, Ray lived in Chicago’s 26th Street neighborhood. Today, he lives a little more south and a little more west in the city with his wife, son, and daughter.
Photo credit: Rocky Jara @RockyJPhotography on Instagram
The Blog’s Title
According to National Geographic, there are about 20,000 southern white rhinos struggling to survive in the wild.
Therefore, I have a perspective that, like the white rhino, must fight to exist. The writing here includes my responses, reflections, reactions to Latino- and education-related issues.
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