To the Editor: ‘Racism’? Puh-lease!
Posted By Staff On January 26, 2011 @ 2:09 am In Letters to the Editor | 2 Comments
What better way to deflect Rockford’s disgust at LaVonne Sheffield’s finally-published shameful behavior than to attack community leaders and motives? I’m outraged. Why aren’t they?
Because of the draining 11-year lawsuit, basic classes, our Votech Center, and grammar instruction were foolishly eliminated, deemed “racially identifiable.” In 1996, I was ordered to switch out five white honors students with five black regular ones to meet quotas. Any parent would demand honors classes, yet the People Who REALLY Care, this district’s long-suffering teachers, are still blamed when too few black students choose or succeed in them.
Students, no one is holding you back but you. If you want higher grades and test scores, study harder. If you want fewer referrals and suspensions, behave better.
How is it OK to segregate mostly non-black gifted students in one building for five years, yet label decidedly-different college-prep honors classes “discriminatory”? How is it OK to also eliminate valuable electives that mix ages, races and intellects, yet accuse US of racism?
Carolyn Kelley
Rockford
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