the dp article stated:
School district Chief Academic Officer Cassandra Jones said discussions with
Penn involved the creation of a focused curriculum dealing with
international studies, an idea that was not popular among the crowd.
"The students who go here are not interested in international business,"
social-studies teacher Lashundra Dixon said, suggesting a more vocational
curriculum, such as nursing or mechanics.
"We have students who don't need a Ph.D., they need the skills to take care
of the kids they already have," she said.
Jones stressed that no plans for a collaboration have been set in stone. But
those present at the meeting still expressed dissatisfaction with certain
aspects of plans to refurbish the school.
Paul Uyehara wrote:
I think if Penn suggested the curriculum this one person
wants, people would probably accuse them of being racist, not to mention
anointed. Instead of "yes we can" its "no you can't."
Glenn Moyer wrote:
She's a realist not a racist. Certainly, you get that, and were simply making
a funny.
Kimm Tynan wrote:
Actually, I think the remark demonstrates disturbingly low expectations by
this teacher.
I've been wondering about this for a while, and I think that
the teacher's remark is racist only to the extent to which
penn's proposal for this particular high school is racist.
and that the teacher's remark is pragmatic only to the
extent that penn's proposal is pragmatic.
ie, let's locate more clearly where the expectations are,
and why.
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