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LULAC Demands Texas Substitute Teacher Be Permanently Disqualified From
Instructing Students Following Racists Remarks
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Nation’s Oldest & Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization is Calling on the
Texas Education Agency, a State with a Racist History of Banning Spanish in
Public Schools, to Permanently Disqualify a Socorro School District Substitute
Teacher from Instructing Students

El Paso, TX - Today, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued
a statement demanding that the Texas Education Agency and Socorro Independent
School District permanently ban the substitute teacher who told a male Hispanic
student: “Speak English, we’re in America.” The incident was caught on camera.
LULAC President Domingo Garcia and LULAC El Paso District Director Mary Yañez
issued the following statements in response to the incident which is now being
investigated by the Socorro Independent School District, a city outside of El
Paso:

“The substitute teacher caught on camera telling a student to ‘Speak English’
must be permanently banned from instructing students effective immediately.
Teachers and all school staff are meant to be leaders and mentors to our children
– not racists who harbor anti-immigrant sentiments,” said Domingo Garcia, LULAC
National President. “From 1918 until the Texas Bilingual Act in 1969, Texas laws
banned Spanish in public schools and many of us remember personally that this was
enforced with humiliating corporal punishment in schools. It is abominable that
this institutionalized racism against the Hispanic community in Texas hasn’t
ended.”

“The days when a Hispanic student’s mouth would get washed with soap for speaking
Spanish are long gone,” said Mary Yañez, LULAC El Paso District Director. “We ask
the Socorro Independent School District to investigate this matter and if racial
comments were made by the teacher, she should be banned from teaching.”

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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and
oldest civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans
and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 1,000
councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and
advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of
today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org.







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