he was of a different race. In both stories the student gets punished for their heritage. The students in the article were put on the floor just for speaking their own language. This comparison shows how racism still is prominent here in America.
Yes, in the news article there are some factors that affect the story in a different way. In the news article the teacher gets suspended for her behavior whereas in “Leandro” nothing happened except that Leandro gets punished instead of Joan getting punished. We see that because Joan was white she didn't get punished. In our society some people today consider people like Joan “perfect” which is why they don’t get get into trouble. Joan stated that the teacher would believe her because she was firstly a white girl, lived in a white house, and had a mother who was active in the PTA. The way she described Leandro was that he was a fat Mexican who had difficulty speaking english and that his mother couldn't attend meetings because she had too many children to care for. Races like Leandro’s are more likely to get into trouble because they are of a different race. This relates to the story because when the children were speaking spanish the teacher punished them for not speaking english. If a white student was speaking spanish she may not have a problem but since the students were hispanic they were punished for speaking their own language. One outcome that could have changed the story is that if Mrs. Butler would’ve been suspended like the one in the article, maybe she would’ve learned not to be racist.