south korea in the news

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

I know we're not supposed to create a new thread, but i didn't know where to put this post. There is a tragic article about the Virginia Tech gunman's extended family in South Korea. With my young kids, I talked very briefly about what had happened last monday. I was wondering how some of the upper grade teachers addressed the issue...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1613417,00.html

[Anonymous]

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/19/korean

here's another article about the virginian gunman's ethnicity. I find it so ridiculous that people would stereotype other Korean Americans based on this one incident. I was wondering if upper grade teachers were seeing any tension surrounding this issue..

[Anonymous]

http://www.ncte.org/about/over/positions/category/div/127095.htm

The NCTE put out this statement about racism in schools. They also here suggest ideas on how to deal with racism and your students

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