A local minority group is requesting the court system's blessing on recently approved attendance boundaries that are projected to create some predominantly minority schools next year.
The Pitt County Coalition for Educating Black Children is requesting Pitt County Schools take its new redistricting plan to federal district court to make sure it complies with standing court orders. The district is working with its legal counsel regarding the request.
At its meeting Monday night, the Board of Education in two split votes approved proximity-based maps for 11 elementary schools and three middle schools for 2011-12. The maps were recommended by Superintendent Beverly Reep as the best balance for long-term stability of all redistricting criteria — proximity, capacity and proficiency scores — as well as community input. Students were assigned based on those factors, not race, but demographic data was included to project a school's potential makeup.
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Shut him Up
Just for my edification and kicks, will someone please share with me the crimes that Hall served time for? I've heard of a few but I'd love to see the entire list.
Look at the map
Read this quote from the "white" group of parents. The Greenville Parents Association, which filed the complaint on the 2005 plan, also objected to the recommended maps. Association representative Kay Godwin said she was disappointed but not surprised by the approved plan. This plan include a group of wealthy parent also. Their kids are going to the school with "kids that are "dumb" according to some of you. It is always going to be a problem for a select few. Most of your post represent kid that do not have to be moved to other school. I quess you are fine with the decision. It is a known fact that when you have kids that are not motivated for one reason or another they and the teacher do not perform to the level intelligents.
What else are you doing?
Mr Hall, you represent the Coalition for Educating Black Children. I know you disagree with the redistricting plan, but what else are you and your group doing to further the education of Black children in Pitt County? What programs have you put in place to help educate our Black children?
Over And Over Again
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses........
It is not about the kids
This is not about individual students. This is just another attempt to point fingers at others for failures that are occurring away from school. This is an attempt to avoid having another highly populated minority school that is low performing. This is an attempt by ADULTS to avoid another Sadie Saulter. How did that work out? It would appear that Mr Hall prefers that low performing students needs are not addressed if he can insure that the entire school has low performance but can not be pinned on minority students. When is this insanity going to stop. When will all these clowns/adults do what is right for the child who is struggling. Busing a child further from home which makes it even more difficult for many parents to participate in their child's education is beneficial to who? The child who is struggling, the parent who may have limited resources or the self promoters? This grandstanding is not about children and their education needs it is about self promotion.
If by simply seating a white child and a black child next to one another in a class room was the answer would we have not already seen all schools performing above expected levels. Mr. Hall enjoy your soap box if you must but you and your approach will only help to increase high school dropout rates.
Keep kids closer to home,work and utilize additional resources to get the school and the home/parents to work as a team for and with the child. It has been proven that when a school is part of the community it serves performance by students is higher.
Mr. Hall with all due respect the approach you are seeking has been proven time and time again to fail those individual students who may need additional help. It is about a single child and should not be about desire for diversity at all costs. When that cost may be a seven year old not learning to read or a sixteen year old who quits because he can not read.
But at least they sat beside kids of other races, a success I guess for some.
Why do these race baiters
Why do these race baiters think that if a black child sits next to a white kid it will make the black kid a better student? This is so illogical it is scary.
Math
So let me get this straight. If we have a school with a proficiency of 80 percent and another school with a rate of 50 we can combine those schools, divide them in half and then have 2 schools with a rating of 65? How does that help the individual students? If school districts are drawn to achieve racial and proficiency balance then we will be redrawing districts every year. Is the "coalition" saying that minority students will have better scores by attending a more racially balanced and proficient school? Does that ensure that the under-performing students will suddenly improve? You should not move students around just to make some statistics look better. Should we? If every school is given the same capital resources, staffed with equally capable teachers and teaching similar material then why should it matter what the demographics are? So what if a school is 90 percent black. Does that mean the school will under-perfrom? Are you saying that black kids are stupid? I don't think so. We are all equal. Sure, some kids are smarter than others but it has nothing to do with the color of their skin. Why is attending the school closest to your home a bad thing?
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