Almera Anderson Romney

ALMERA ANDERSON ROMNEY graduated from B.Y.U. with honors and has done graduate work at Stanford, Claremont, and Cal State, Los Angeles. She has had a distinguished teaching career, which includes seventeen years as principal of an all-minority elementary school. The mother of three and grandmother of six, she lives in the Monrovia Ward, Pasadena Stake.

All Children Are Alike Unto Me

Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 2

“I’m sure that you wouldn’t be interested in the only position I have to offer you. We do need a teacher in our Negro school but the problems are insurmountable. The children are undisciplined and can’t learn, the parents are ignorant, and the school’s as dirty as a pigpen.”

This pronouncement by a school superintendent amazed and challenged me.