Carlisle vs. Monroe
Presidential debate in Tenn.
Blue Jackets practice at Miami
Wind happens
I am borrowing my title from a co-worker who wants to make this a T-shirt.
Anyway, I just got an update for you from Lakota. All buildings now have electricity. Plains was the final building to get on board, and it is also the one with the most damage. A hole in the roof has been fixed. Officials said to expect school tomorrow, but an announcement will be made between 6 and 8 p.m. tonight, Sept. 17. They are waiting on a final road report to ensure they are safe for bus travel. Not sure if you saw the article on our site, but a wire hit a Mason bus today. The children were safe, but the potential danger was another reason Lakota made the final call last night to cancel. All the food is back in the building except for Plains. There are milk deliveries happening, and some buildings will have more supplies than others. For that reason, all children can expect a lunch, but it won’t coordinate with the meal calendar and it may be different depending on what each building has in stock. All the milk and ice cream got thrown out.
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Race in Lakota
This topic of racism seems to pop up again and again in Lakota. I am sure it happens elsewhere, but it definitely has taken this district by storm this past year or two.
Monday, two staff members resigned for making racist comments about other staff members as well as bad-mouthing the district’s efforts to increase diversity among staff.
It doesn’t take much to look back on all the other incidents from the play “Ten Little Indians” to a teacher segregating students at Ridge Elementary. We had an incident with a coach and a referee and with a principal and student punishment.
What do you think it will take to get everyone on the same page when it comes to race? Starting Sunday in the Hamilton Journal-News and Thursday in the Pulse-Journal, you will see a series relating to how schools in Butler County are handling this race issue. The achievement gap in Ohio is growing. Districts are taking various approaches to combat this problem of institutionalized racism.
Read closely next week and let us know what you think.
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By Rick
May 15, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this
You must be a post modernist, i.e., words mean what you want them to mean at that particular moment. You ridiculously state, “Districts are taking various approaches to combat this problem of institutionalized racism.” You state there is institutional racism because of the achievement gap. There is an achievement gap because of a demographic gap. Something like 80% of black babies are born out of wedlock. Is that institutional racism or very bad lifestyle choices. There is not as much respect for education in the poor community and blacks are overrepresented in that category. I could go on about the demographics. My advice, pull your head out of those liberal canards and do some fact finding.