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Analyzing Leandro's Unfair Punishment
The article I wrote about is “Chicago-area teacher who punished students for speaking Spanish resigns in disgrace.” This article was about how a teacher punished a student for speaking spanish which is a racial punishment. This story relates to “Leandro” because his teacher also punished him for false allegations that Joan made on him. In the story Joan whisted by accident and Mrs.Butler heard it. So since Joan didn't want to get in trouble she blamed it on a boy named Leandro. Even though Leandro denied, Mrs.Butler believed Joan because she was white and she wouldn’t believe Leandro because he was a Mexican. If Joan was not white, maybe the teacher might have not believed her. Since Leandro was Mexican he couldn’t speak up for his rights because
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