Re: [Mpls] Kids Suspended in MPS

[Brobson34]

I'm sure a smart guy like Mr. Mann, who has a long history of chastising the MPS on the basis of ability grouping and other complaints, knows what he is doing when he draws an analogy between Denny's, a service company with one of the most notoriously racist histories in American corporate annals, with the people who work within the Minneapolis Public Schools. It is a not so sly way of saying that the MPS is racist and that if it stopped its racist behavior then matters would improve. If that wasn't a subtext of what Mr. Mann intended to say then his communication skills are on the fritz.
My experience with MPS personnel, black, white and whatever, is that, if anything, they are less racist than the population and society at large. Yes, I'm a white male with a white male child, but I can only tell you what I know and experience. Rather than Mr. Mann's passive-aggressive inference, I'd like to ask the list straight out how they feel the MPS does in matters of race--and I'm not talking about test scores.

Britt Robson
Lyndale