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People look at the sharply dressed, affable principal at Roswell High School, Pilar Carrasco, and think he’s got it going on. Carrasco is known to be involved in the lives of his students. He will show up to activities and sporting events to offer encouragement and support.
When Carrasco shows up, it’s to let the students know he cares for them and about them. Not because they’re athletes or involved in activities no, Carrasco is paying a debt to those who invested in his life when he was a little boy. He’s paying it forward to the next generation of kids, for the life he is able to lead.
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Life is 90% attitude when adversity hits, and 10% what happens. At a young age, life delivered a thunderbolt to Ralph Tellez, guidance counselor at Roswell High School, and forever changed his outlook.
Ralph Tellez, Roswell High School guidance counselor (Submitted Photo)
At an early age, one man, Horace âPopâ Brown, believed in Tellez and made a difference. Tellez used to work as a rack boy at the Sunset Pool Hall.
Brown impressed Tellez because he had a classic Cadillac. While working at the pool hall after school and during the summers, Tellez listened to the wisdom from âPopâ Brown and earned two degrees, a Bachelor of Science in psychology, and a masterâs in school counseling.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was kicked, beaten and jailed for the color of his skin. His response to the horrors happening to him was to answer his critics with love, not hate. King refused to give into hatred, or think of himself as inferior because of the color of his skin. Kingâs response was to lift the lives of Americans and African Americans to a higher level to receive their civil rights.
For every mountaintop moment lived out, such as the March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963, Kingâs iconic âI Have a Dream,â there were moments lived in the valleys. For many minorities, the scars of discrimination are long-lasting and deep. They know what it is like to have been shunned for opportunities and to have doors closed that affected their growth and lifestyle. They know there is a debt to be paid for the ancestors that have walked before African Americans today.
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During that same period, no schools were placed on the Closure List.
The Watchlist, maintained by the New Mexico Environment Department, includes schools and businesses with two or more Rapid Responses within 14 days. Those with four or more Rapid Responses in 14 days are placed on the Closure List and required to close and, where appropriate, return instruction to remote-only learning.
A Rapid Response is a series of interventions designed to prevent COVID-19 spread, beginning when the New Mexico Department of Health notifies a school that an employee or student has a confirmed positive case and was on campus/in the facility during the infectious period. Read the complete COVID-19 Rapid Response Watchlist here.
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