An article “Lancaster school’s bid to aid black students sparks claims of bias” reports:
“When Dominique Miller walked into his newly assigned homeroom at McCaskey East High School in Lancaster last month, his teacher asked if he and the other students noticed anything unusual.
“‘No females in the class’, one student said, while Miller, a 16-year-old junior, noticed something even more striking. ‘We’re all African Americans,’ he said…
“The idea was simple – a homeroom mentoring program for underachieving African American students whose test scores were the lowest in the racially diverse school. Under the plan, students would be divided by race and gender and placed in homerooms with African American teachers, or mentors, for a six-minute start to the school day that focused on the importance of academic achievement and looking ahead to careers.”
WATCHDOG: According to an article in the Sunday News, the School District of Lancaster is putting this program on hold, in part to avoid possible expensive litigation. While we can understand the initial negative reaction to based upon past experiences with segregation, it seems that opponents are fighting past wars rather than dealing with current and future problems.
Mr. Editor, Seriously? We know that you would be screaming bloody murder had this been white students segregated to give them couseling on academic achievement. This is what is so disappointing about the hard core left wing radical publications like yours.
EDITOR: And here we thought our latent consevatism was showing through!
So this is a “hard core left wing radical publication”.
Only in Lancaster could that be said I exspect
Who cares right wing, left wing, radical…who cares? Finally someone has the courage to enact a program which we all hope will help our children learn as well as give the so-called “underachievers” an opportunity to express themselves ……and that is a beautiful thing..