The Soledad Children: The Fight to End Discriminatory IQ Tests by Marty Glick, Maurice Jourdane
English | June 18th, 2020 | ISBN: 1558858881, 1558858938 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1.83 MB
Ten-year-old Arturo Velázquez was born and raised in a farm labor camp in Soledad, California. He was bright and gregarious, but he didn't speak English when he started first grade. When he entered third grade in 1968, the psychologist at Soledad Elementary School gave him an English-language IQ test. Based on the results, he was placed in a class for the "Educable Mentally Retarded (EMR)." Arturo wasn't the only Spanish-speaking child in the room; all but one were from farmworker families. All were devastated by the stigma and lack of opportunity to learn.