{"id":5173,"date":"2010-02-10T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2010-02-10T19:26:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T19:26:58","slug":"students-growing-refusal-to-state-a-race-on-forms-frustrates-school-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5173","title":{"rendered":"Students’ growing refusal to state a race on forms frustrates school officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students’ growing refusal to state a race on forms frustrates school officials<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sacramento Bee<\/a>
\n2010-01-18<\/p>\n

Stephen Magagnini<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sacramento, California<\/a> \u2014 About half of the 37 students in teacher Jeanne Kirchofer’s Laguna Creek High School<\/a> classroom, who span nearly every combination of race and ethnicity, have joined the growing number of California<\/a> students who decline to state a race on official forms and tests…<\/p>\n

“I’m not saying we’re going to forget where we came from, but we can all see similarities from different hardships,” Belcher said. By eliminating racial categories\u2014and racial consciousness\u2014”we can make racial hatred go away,” she said.<\/p>\n

Eighteen classmates agreed. “If we were all one race, then there wouldn’t be any racism,” said Mike Obi, 14, whose roots are Italian and Nigerian. He said his parents declined to state his race on his school registration form.<\/p>\n

“We shouldn’t be judged by our race,” said senior Jessica Mae Belcher, 17, whose roots are African and Cherokee. She prefers “none of the above” because “we’re all different, but we’re all the same, too.”..<\/p>\n

…From 2006 to 2009, the number of Elk Grove Unified School District<\/a> students whose parents listed their race as “multiple\/no response” went from 500 to 6,200 — a twelve-fold jump in just three years, the California Department of Education says. About one of every 10 of the district’s students now list race as “multiple\/no response.”<\/p>\n

There’s also been a dramatic rise statewide. Data show the number of K-12 students listing their race as “multiple\/no response” has jumped 70 percent, from 124,000 in 2006 to 210,000 last year…<\/p>\n

…Senior Candice Renkin, 17,\u2014who identifies herself as white\/European American\u2014said it’s important to close the achievement gap. “By ignoring racial categories, it makes the problem worse because people can be racist and there’s no way to quantify it.<\/strong>” …<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students’ growing refusal to state a race on forms frustrates school officials Sacramento Bee 2010-01-18 Stephen Magagnini Sacramento, California \u2014 About half of the 37 students in teacher Jeanne Kirchofer’s Laguna Creek High School classroom, who span nearly every combination of race and ethnicity, have joined the growing number of California students who decline to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,26,394,20],"tags":[2108,2105],"class_list":["post-5173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-sacramento-bee","tag-stephen-magagnini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}