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S1 E7: I Didn’t Believe It with Norma Cortese
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In this episode Candace welcomes Norma Cortese and they discuss the importance of higher education and education of the taboo topics. They both are advocates for higher education, they have strong passion for the Latino community, and they were both involved in the Por La Gente Association in Racine.
Norma was born in San Antonio TX, and she moved to Racine at the age of four. She is a proud product of the Racine Unified School District. She has followed in the footsteps of her mother and her aunt, and became a dedicated teacher and educator in Racine Wisconsin. She has her BA from Carthage, Bilingual Certificate from Alverno College, and she received her Masters at Cardinal Stritch. Norma has been married for 15 years and she was a good example for her two step-daughters, who both have university education.
Being a teacher for 24 years, Norma has seen cases of abuse and she had to take action to prevent or to stop child abuse. She thinks that it is important to be a role model to children and that they need to see that success can happen. Norma’s message to you is: Get involved in your community and make a difference.
Episode highlights:
8:08 – You can see which one has seen more than they should have, been touched more than they should have. – As educators we have to be aware of the signs.
14:00 – In the last two years we’re no longer teaching family life, and it scares me, especially because of all the games, videos, movies, music. Sex is something they need to be taught about, and they need to know right from wrong.
15:40 – You survived. But I think about the ones that do not survive. The ones that end up taking drugs, taking their lives. But even the vicious cycle, that they do it to other people, because it was done to them. And that scares me. When is it going to stop?!
28:20 – It took me a long time to get here with therapy, with everything else. Me, now, as a 49-year-old woman, talking to that younger girl, I would have told her to go to the authorities. There are things that I want to tell those younger girls or those Latina struggling.
35:47 – Our children need to know. They need to know that it’s not right. We need to be teaching it. We need to make sure that our children need to know that it’s wrong.
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