Shock and awe! Those are the two words that best describe my immediate reaction to the egregious actions of Dillard Drive Middle School principal Teresa Abron. When first informed of the two segregated meetings involving children of color, I strongly felt that the Wake County School Board would swiftly respond with strong disapproval. Today, hearing that the board endorsed the actions tells me the Wake County School System operates in a state of disrepair. When last 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 administrators such as Abron and others embrace the criminalized racial stereotypes about students of color, letters like this have to be written. At the risk of sounding flippant, anybody with two functioning brain cells, enabling racially segregated assemblies, excluding Caucasian children, post Jena 6 lacks the basic common sense and racial sensitivity needed to model students to function in a 21st century post modern globalized culture. Unequivocally, this principal as well as members of the wake county school board should resign while they still have some quasi level of respect.
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