In a message dated 11/20/2007 7:16:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Go complain to the Katrina victims that your basement once flooded after it rained. That's about what you are doing now by comparing the complete excision of the white race from APHS You're missing my point with that insidious analogy. The '96 decision to allow students from other districts to attend RBR _http://www.state.nj.us/education/legal/sboe/1997/asbpk.pdf_ (http://www.state.nj.us/education/legal/sboe/1997/asbpk.pdf) was not the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back in AP. to a couple of late board of education meetings over parental anxiety at Monmouth Regional. It wasn't Monmouth Regional. And it wasn't parental anxiety. For the BOE, It was tuition money that went to RBR; for the staff, loss of other elective programs and jobs; for angry parents, why we didn't offer enhanced programs regardless of cost (as opposed to taxpayers without school-age children). It's exactly thinking like that which hides the severity of what the kids in Asbury Park are going through because of that decision - racial segregation. Of course you live there and I don't, so if nothing continues to get done about it, it's not my kids that suffer, its yours. So go ahead and think what you want about it. Why should I care? If you're trying to label me as insensitive to racial issues, you're way off base. Quite the opposite. To put it bluntly, I believe white flight, which started way before that RBR decision, caused many of our problems here. Your "issue" is an oversimplification. I had maybe two or three whites in my classes at APHS way before 1996. And I've never regretted not having fled from Asbury Park. So let's just agree that Asbury Park's schools need a dedicated BOE, administration, and faculty, and look forward to support those who fit that bill. Happy Thanksgiving **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)
