By A. Belden Fields
A floor breaking examine how entry to selection making within the public colleges could be prolonged to all, even formerly excluded segments of the neighborhood.
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The latter sets the agendas of the community meetings. Everyone attending the community meetings was invited to also participate on the task force, but its meetings were invariably smaller than the community meetings. To encourage minority parents to come, the first community meeting was held at one of the African American churches, an older wooden building located in a mixed neighborhood on the border of the main commercial area in the downtown. This site had been chosen by the task force to encourage African American citizens, who might otherwise find a public school inhospitable or intimidating, to attend.
We could do that. My daughter is losing out on almost a full year’s education, because this district keeps to a short 189 day schedule. Adele brought the group back together. Adele: What do we see here, like the seven blind mice, how decisions are made is an issue of perception: who sees what. What we see is not what the school board sees. Decisions are being made all the time and the people that they effect are not always brought into the decision-making process. Next time we will talk about discipline.
A variety of symbols were presented, from gardens, to books, flowers, the globe, a life jacket, the Star of David, a fist. Each group then reported on its symbols and on the groups it felt were currently excluded, including students, parents, alumni, the police, support staff, business, booster clubs, the churches, and specialneeds parents. Members of the task force and two parents agreed to attempt to make contact with these groups. Now move ahead to a community meeting held in early September.
