| A recent study has indicated that presence (or lack | | | | beyond the idea that it's acceptable to stereotype |
| thereof) of African American students is factored in | | | | people because of their race, but I have to question |
| when parents choose which San Francisco school | | | | that now. Based on this recent study, this problem |
| their children will be attending. While some people felt | | | | exists at San Francisco schools. It's probably not much |
| that the results have been sensationalized in the press, | | | | of a stretch to think that people who live in other |
| a number of teachers working in San Francisco | | | | school districts might share the same view. |
| schools have stepped forward to indicate that they | | | | It's quite unfortunate that these attitudes still exist. |
| have personal knowledge of this fact. | | | | Children are not born knowing that they should treat |
| Attendance at San Francisco Schools Should be | | | | someone who looks different from them any |
| determined by Neighborhood | | | | differently; they have to learn it. San Francisco schools |
| For those parents who have concerns about their | | | | have a duty and a responsibility to do whatever they |
| children attending school with African American | | | | can to create a positive learning environment where |
| students, I would like to know exactly what their | | | | everyone is welcome. Parents who insist on getting |
| concerns are. If they are concerned about the potential | | | | statistics about breakdown of the student population |
| for violence at San Francisco schools, they should | | | | by race when they are deciding which San Francisco |
| know that the capacity for violence is not confined to | | | | schools they are going to send their children to are |
| any one race, gender, or age group. The idea that the | | | | teaching their children to be intolerant. |
| more African American students in attendance at a | | | | Have you ever noticed that people who are racist |
| particular school, the more likely it is that violence will be | | | | don't want to admit it? This is racism, pure and simple. |
| a problem is ludicrous. | | | | It's not about safety or quality of education in San |
| Instead of letting parents choose which San Francisco | | | | Francisco schools. The first step in dealing with an |
| schools to send their children to, why not just send | | | | issue is to call it what it is. How would these parents |
| them to the one that is the closest to their home? The | | | | who have concerns about African American students |
| students get the opportunity to learn at the same | | | | attending San Francisco schools feel if the shoe was |
| school that their friends and neighbors are attending, | | | | on the other foot? I bet they would find that the idea |
| regardless of race. | | | | that other parents had a problem because their |
| San Francisco Schools Would Benefit From a Lesson | | | | children were attending San Francisco schools |
| in Tolerance | | | | unacceptable. They would be right. |
| I would have thought that most of us have moved | | | | |