Studying the 1968-1969 El Paso Independent School District personnel directory, I am beginning to understand judge Session’s ruling in Alvarado v. El Paso Independent School District.
The judge’s order is remembered by most of us as the one that caused school busing here in the 1980’s. Now I see that it also affected personnel, facilities, and curriculum.
The directory lists the employees of the district, including educators and support staff. Looking at some of the hispanic surnames explains some of the judge’s concern.
The web site genealogy.about.com lists Garcia as the most common hispanic last name. The district directory lists 35 Garcias with 14 of them being educators (40%) and 21 being support personnel (60%).
Eight out of the 27 employees with the last name Martinez were educators (30%).
Of the 37 people with the last name Smith, 25 were educators (68%). Jones came in with 14 listings and 7 educators (50%).
Something got better
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Huh? Maybe it’s just me, but this post is unintelligible.
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G. G. Lafarelle was principal at Bowie in the seventies. Apparently this is some archaic reference to past personnel policies.
I’ve got mad googling skills.
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