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Race in Lakota
This topic of racism seems to pop up again and again in Lakota. I am sure it happens elsewhere, but it definitely has taken this district by storm this past year or two.
Monday, two staff members resigned for making racist comments about other staff members as well as bad-mouthing the district’s efforts to increase diversity among staff.
It doesn’t take much to look back on all the other incidents from the play “Ten Little Indians” to a teacher segregating students at Ridge Elementary. We had an incident with a coach and a referee and with a principal and student punishment.
What do you think it will take to get everyone on the same page when it comes to race? Starting Sunday in the Hamilton Journal-News and Thursday in the Pulse-Journal, you will see a series relating to how schools in Butler County are handling this race issue. The achievement gap in Ohio is growing. Districts are taking various approaches to combat this problem of institutionalized racism.
Read closely next week and let us know what you think.
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By Rick
May 15, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
You must be a post modernist, i.e., words mean what you want them to mean at that particular moment. You ridiculously state, “Districts are taking various approaches to combat this problem of institutionalized racism.” You state there is institutional racism because of the achievement gap. There is an achievement gap because of a demographic gap. Something like 80% of black babies are born out of wedlock. Is that institutional racism or very bad lifestyle choices. There is not as much respect for education in the poor community and blacks are overrepresented in that category. I could go on about the demographics. My advice, pull your head out of those liberal canards and do some fact finding.