Tulsa: Black students to start school 7 days earlier than whites

[rainbow4321]

North Tulsa's population is heavily African American while South Tulsa is white. Seems like they could come up with a better, more pro-active solution than this:

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/stories.asp?whichpage=1&id=84594


The Tulsa school board barely approved a plan that would open 15 schools in north Tulsa a week before the rest of the schools in Tulsa.

The school district says the earlier start would help improve struggling test scores. Still, teachers, principals and board members who represent those schools weren't convinced and spoke out against the plan. The board eventually passed the change in a 4-to-3 vote Monday night.

Madison Middle School principal and opponent of the plan, Dr RP Ashanti-Alexander: "I'm not ashamed of what I said. As an educator, I think in order to move us to do those right things for everyone; you must say what needs to be said."

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The north side schools will start on August 15.The rest of the district goes back to class August 22.

[Jon_da_brockman]

1. Ummm.... wow

thats just.... wow.

[noamnety]

2. I'm sure those 5 extra days will make all the difference

Imagine how great they'd do if we cancelled the holidays, too!

[rainbow4321]

3. At the rate the district is going..

We'll soon hear that minority students will no longer be allowed to have weekends, holidays, or summers off.
Our TX schools tried something similiar but it didn't pass..they wanted kids with acceptable test scores to get more school days off than kids with poor/not passing scores. Heaven forbid the officials take a harder look at their system/community and figure out a REAL solution to helping these kids.