Shock and awe! Those are the two words that best describe my reaction to the egregious actions of Dillard Drive Middle School principal Teresa Abron. When first informed of the segregated meetings involving children of color, I strongly felt that the Wake County school board would swiftly respond with strong disapproval. Hearing that the board endorsed the action tells me that the Wake County school system operates in a state of disrepair.
When I was a middle school student at West Millbrook, when two students argued beyond their limits, the teachers either quashed the beef promptly or the students were properly disciplined even if the altercation crossed racial boundaries. Unfortunately, because some administrators embrace criminalized racial stereotypes about students of color, letters like this have to be written.
Excluding Caucasian children, post Jena 6, lacks the basic common sense and racial sensitivity needed to model for students how to function in a 21st century post-modern globalized culture.
W. Russell Robinson
Durham
Published In Ralegh, News and Observer 2/22/08
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