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Missouri Woman Helps Her Son's Classmates Embrace Diversity

When Marcela Martinez McNett learned that her son was being bullied and harassed by other students because of his skin color, she approached the principal with an idea to expand students' understandings of cultural differences. After living in Wichita, Kan., where there is a larger Hispanic community, McNett found her nine-year-old son, Joaquin, getting bad grades and struggling to fit in at Hyde Elementary School in St. Joseph, MO. At the end of third grade, she finally learned that the bullying and derogatory remarks were what were upsetting him. Mrs. McNett is multicultural herself. Part Mexican-American, African-American, Native American, Indian and Irish, she remembers what it was like when she was in elementary school and was harassed because no one knew what ethnicity she was either. Click here to read more.
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity