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Do not ask your students about their immigration status.
Do not ask your students about their immigration status.
Immigration status can be a difficult topic of discussion for our students and we, as educators, provide all of our students with an education regardless of that status. Thus, asking your students about their immigration status isn't productive and should be avoided. If a student talks with you about their immigration status and requires resources, email jason.mccoy@slps.org or go to our immigration resources site: https://sites.google.com/view/stlimmigrationresources/home
Plyler v. Doe
Plyler v. Doe
"In June 1982, the Supreme Court issued Plyler v. Doe, a landmark decision holding that states cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education on account of their immigration status. By a 5-4 vote, the Court found that any resources which might be saved from excluding undocumented children from public schools were far outweighed by the harms imposed on society at large from denying them an education."
Source: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/plyler-v-doe-public-education-immigrant-students
Lau v. Nichols
Lau v. Nichols
"In its 1974 ruling in Lau v. Nichols, the court held that the failure of the San Francisco school system to effectively educate some 1,800 Chinese-speaking students denied them “a meaningful opportunity” to participate in school.
Like the 1954 Brown decision striking down racial segregation in schools, Lau addressed educational inequities faced by a disadvantaged minority population. Like Brown, the justices spoke without dissent "
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