During my freshman year of high school, the administrators pulled all of the Asian kids out of class and made us take an English proficiency test. At first we thought it was a joke, but sitting at the desk was a privileged white woman with scantrons who talked to us like we had just arrived in this country. I subsequently cussed her out.
when: high school in california 2004. Made me feel angry, but slightly triumphant.
Ach, this happened to two friends of mine during high-school. Only they were MADE to take an ESL class for a whole year despite making A-grades in their ACTUAL ENGLISH CLASSES. Their ESL teacher was extremely condescending and racist, and though she insisted she wasn’t able to take the out of the class I’m sure she really was. They then had to jump straight into year eight Japanese to learn the third/fourth language that they originally wanted to learn.
This was also in 2004, in Australia.
(Source: microaggressions, via microaggressions)
