To Want the Unwanted: Latinx English Language Learners on the Border

Abstract

Scandals rooted in the pressures of high-stakes schooling have pushed school leaders and districts to a tipping point in the education of the marginalized and vulnerable. This chapter explores how some parts of our education system have evolved into ones in which the dehumanization of vulnerable students, their parents, and their communities has become commonplace. In the pursuit of praxis, this author argues that we must consider actions at the individual and local level to bring about localized, incremental change that can result in larger cumulative movements of counter-narratives and counter-pedagogies in response to this trend of dehumanization in our schooling of ethnic, racial, and linguistic minorities.