Fresh on the heals of yesterdays infuriating, political-correctness-gone-too-far story, comes this rousing article from the Daily Tribune. You should visit the source to read the whole entry, but here is a summary:
A school district is defending its intentions but reviewing its policies after a field trip by African-American elementary students to meet a University of Michigan rocket scientist drew complaints from excluded children and their parents.
Ann Arbor Public Schools officials said Wednesday that the trip last week by 30 Dicken Elementary School students to meet Alec Gallimore, an African-American aerospace engineering professor and propulsion lab director at the university, was intended to inspire them as part of a bigger push to close a persistent gap in test scores between black and white students.
And here is my favorite part:
She said the fallout started when the students returned from the trip and were met with boos from classmates who stayed behind. Principal Mike Madison, who is African-American, heard the commotion and came to the room to admonish the students for what she termed a “highly inappropriate” response and explain the rationale for the trip, she said.
If I’m understanding this correctly, a group of elementary level students were being scolded for “inappropriate” behavior in retaliation for being left out of a (publicly funded) school activity because they weren’t a particular race.
Hmm.
I wonder how that rational came across to the other students? Couldn’t it be construed that she was telling the white kids that because the black kids aren’t as smart as they are, they need special treatment in order to get ahead? Is that really a message worth conveying? If I were the parent of one of the black children, I would be infuriated.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but I don’t think I am. Kids are smart, and I bet a lesson each one of them walked away with today is this: “How you’re treated by others in life is impacted by your race.”
I don’t know what to say. Segregation still permeates among our public schools? However, for different reasons, it is still morally and ethically wrong. I too would be infuriated whichever my race was. If black children had been left behind on a field trip, regardless of the reason, the ACLU would have a field day! It seems that racially equality, in this nation, has turned to black and Hispanic superiority and the degradation of the Caucasian. Which is as equally wrong as the reverse.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.