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Like most Kindergarten classrooms, Carol Espiritu's is decorated with cheerfully colored posters illustrating the months and seasons, stacks of picture books and imaginative drawings. Espiritu's tiny students, like all the kids at the Dr. Bernard Harris Sr. Elementary School in Baltimore, Md., are neatly dressed in the official school uniform--white shirts and blue pants for the boys, white blouses and blue skirts for the girls. In fact, the only thing out of the ordinary in Room 122 this fall is Espiritu. She is one of three new teachers at the school recruited from the Philippines to help...
...Espiritu has adjusted fairly easily. But Roliza Aguilar, who is teaching sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Dickey Hill Elementary and Middle School in Baltimore, has had a more difficult time. "Everyone needs a lot of attention," she says. "If you asked me to tell you how many of them are disciplined, I could count them on five fingers. In the Philippines we only had mild behavior problems, and they're easily addressed because of the culture, the family and value given to adults." In addition, she taught only two periods a day in the Philippines...
...daddy. In all, there are 52,000 mixed-race children nationwide, most the unwanted offspring of Western men and Filipina prostitutes. Some, like 16-year-old Robert, live on the streets, surviving on handouts and sniffs of mind-numbing glue. "They are born in shame," says Agnes Espiritu, a women's and child-rights activist based in Angeles City, home to what was once Clark Air Force Base, one of the the U.S.'s largest facilities in Asia before being returned to the Philippines in 1991. "They can't hide their history because it is printed so clearly on their...
...Multicultural dialogue is not being furthered as much as it can be," says Michael M. Espiritu '01, one of the few returning MSA members. "And it's because we have difficulty bringing groups together...
...about time," said Michael M. Espiritu '01, a president of the Philippine Forum. "It's a small step in the right direction," he said, referring to colleges who he felt had been more generous in student grants...