Dear Colin,
In Ann Arbor, our black population is about 10% but the Board of Education is closer to 30 or even 40% black.
As a result, AA does not have a Gifted and Talented program in any of the schools. But of course Detroit, which is 100% black does.
Why? Well it is racist and the B of E assumes it will be used to track black students into slow moving classes.
I am racially mixed but considered black. My husband is white and my children are phenotypically white.
Because I have white children, I can assure you that the goal of many black educators is to flat out DENY white and asian children an education as a means of “narrowing the achievement gap.” .
I had to fight tooth and nail to get my kids in classes that would challenge them.
I was on a committee, as a non-white parent, to enact advanced classes and it was horrible.
All of the teacher reps were black and we were constantly accused of being racist.
(Interestingly, the black teaches thought that I was Asian. When they learned that I was black and had been educated in all black segregated schools in Louisiana, they softened their tone a little.)
Affirmative Action has to go. It is the reason that a small segment of society is dictating the agenda for the majority. There should be lawsuits over this. Affirmative Action is legislated discrimination just as Jim Crow was legislated.
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From Colin:
Tons of stuff on this topic in Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry. Hope you get a chance to check it out.
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