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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very interesting article.

Why does this happen? Could be any #of different reasons depending on who's interviewing:

1. Some school leaders may be intimidated by AAs with advanced credentials and teaching experience.

2. Some may feel blacks are not representative of the student population, so their absence is not an issue. (If my school is 90% white I may not be too pressed to have minority representation.) However, smart people know that we ALL benefit from being in diverse settings. White kids benefit from being exposed to educated AAs--helps to combat stereotypes and making the AAs they see on the news their only exposure to blacks.

We also tend to forget about the 2 or 3 black kids in the school who feel out of place and would benefit from a friendly black adult face.

3. A fear/feeling that black applicants may not be a good "fit". In other words, because of a lack of exposure to AAs (which they perpetuate with this biased hiring practice), they assume that the black teacher may be loud, late, obnoxious, unprofessional, prone to fighting--and every other negative stereotype of black people they see on TV.

4. Just plain ol' racism and fear of the colureds takin' o'va[/quote]

What crap. Could it be possible that there are simply no black teachers interested? What would you have FCPS do? Kidnap smart blacks off the street and anoint them as teachers?[/quote]

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