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[quote=Anonymous]It is really easy to sit on an anonymous board and talk about these issues. It takes a different type of person to deal with it in real life.

If many AA parents feel like their children are treated differently, it is incumbent upon the school to somehow examine the issue. Let's take out race since there is some hostility toward the alleged "race card." Let's insert gender. If a female student feels discrimanted against in a male-dominated school for being female, with mostly male administrators and staff, the school has an obligation to at least examine the validity of this claim and review any statistics/policies that could be evidence of such discrimination. If the school does not act in that manner, it can be inferred that the school does not value its female student body nor is it interested in fixing the issues that may exist related to gender.

And as for the parents at the school, I am not sure there would be such backlash agaist the parents of the female students if gender happened to be the issue. I think that in progressive DC, we can look at gender honestly, but because we really don't want to deal with this ugly word racism, we won't look in the mirror. Oh, and I am not just talking non-AA people. Everyone needs to look in the mirror.

"I am not racist. I can't be. I have black friends!" *clutches purse, locks car door when a group of young black people walk by*[/quote]

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