Diane, I commend you for your statements. I was going to speak sooner, but I speak a lot, so I was giving someone else a chance :)
I shudder whenever I hear the phrase "parent involvement". When I ran for school board, the StarTrib writer stuck that label on my platform and I asked her to print a retraction (which she didn't). My campaign mentioned absolutely nothing of the sort. She chose to stick that in there, and leave out EVERYTHING else I said. Typical. That phrase, to me, is simply a catch-all feel-good phrase leftover from the 1990's. You are right, the system only wants certain defined types of involvement. Any real movement, such as what your group was doing, clearly undermines what society has planned for itself, and that is conducting real reform and educating students. Yes, racism is alive and well and running rampant in the public school system. It is alive and present in the socioeconomic fabric of our country. If any candidate for school board, both new and/or an incumbent were to tell me it is not, I would question the seriousness of their candidacy and their intent to serve the needs of children. Diane, kudos for what you have done thus far. I know your child is blessed because you have the courage to stand up for him. Pamela Taylor (Who will not be buying any bridges, swamp land and other lies, weighing in from Tampa) --- Diane Wiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it seems to me that after Doug's comments > everyone skirted around the issue of racism in the > Minneapolis Schools. I've debated with myself about > whether to get into it or not, hoping someone else > would. But no one did. Actually, one person wrote > that he thought that the schools were actually less > racist than society at large. I disagree. I think > they are just like society at large. And, just like > society at large, there are two issues, > Institutionalized Racism and Personal Racism. > Frankly, I don't like to use the word Racism, > because everybody gets their knickers in a bunch, > but whether you call it prejudice or bias or racism, > it amounts to the same problem. > > > Am I really the only person who feels that there > are problems with racism in the schools? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
