“Where’s the diversity?” asks Wednesday Journal head. “[One] minority among 36 new teachers ‘unacceptable,’ says Collins.”
Of the 36 teachers hired for the current school year in District 97, one is a minority, a development that the Oak Park’s elementary district’s superintendent calls troubling and unacceptable.
She’s not kidding:
Along with hiring one black teacher, the district hired one minority administrator, an assistant principal, who also is black. In a stern statement read during the board’s meeting last week, Superintendent Constance Collins vowed the district will do better next year in finding and hiring minority teachers and administrators.
Nothing against white teachers, you know:
The superintendent and board . . . stressed that they’re not displeased with the new staff members but only want more diversity moving forward.
And fewer whites, who do nothing for diversity.
The super feels really bad about it:
“It is disappointing and troubling to discover that we have not been true to our mission, which says that we are committed to the needs of a diverse population,” said Collins, the district’s first female and first black superintendent, who was hired in 2005.
“The needs of a diverse population,” yes. Such as?
I asked in an on-line comment, “Is there research showing same-race teachers get better results? I’d like to see it.”
Is there?
Blithe Spirit 
Jim,
If we were a true colorblind community there would never be any list that keeps score by race. I disagree with the presidents healthcare insurance undefined nebulous but very expensive plan. Now former president Jimmy “worst president in modern history” Carter tells the world that I am a RACIST. It seems to me that tagging people with the racist title means that any arguement is over and once again we have settled science.
Ray Simpson
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Is anyone else sick of “diversity” and race talk? Rush Limbaugh made a profound statement yesterday: “Can we afford to have another black president if disagreeing with him is considered “racist?” Dissent was, last year, the highest form of patriotism, now it’s racist. What happens to our right to free (political) speech in this case?
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In the 90s I read a book on US education by Thomas Sowell. In the book he claimed there is no research supporting improved outcomes resulting from having minority teachers. I also remember writing a local letter to the editor criticizing this role-model nonsense. It is affirmative action, pure and simple, that harms students by lowering the general quality of the faculty. In my family’s experience, some of the worst teachers in terms of academics and professional misconduct, including elementary, middle, and high school, were black males.
If it were true that same-race teachers provided better outcomes, then Asian student scores might go through the roof if American public education suddenly got some Asian faculty. Of course, typical Asian-American families are interested in advancement and not excuses.
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Does our Great Leader, Obamma, spechen der Deutsch ? All he needs is a small mustache in the middle of his upper lip. I thought that we were done with Dictators when we got rid of Hitler. Am I wrong ??
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