Greenwich Discrimination?
This weekend, one of the popular news stories was the complaint that Greenwich Board of Education might be discriminating against minority students using a comparison of the quality of schools in the town to support the claim. Is it still possible in this day and age that within a town, a schools systems could be purposely discriminating against a portion of the community? One would like to hope that this is not the case, but then again, if you look at Hartford, one school might not even have enough money to provide a cart to a teacher moving from room to room, while another might have state of the art SmartBoards glistening in each classroom. How is that possible? How is that fair? Did the town of Greenwich simply put the needs of this school aside, or did these problems form over time and it took the movement of students from their old world to a new for them and their parents to take a step back and see all the differences.
I wish the news story included more details about the differences. If you know some of the differences between the schools...The Shiny Apple - http://theshinyapple.org
Please see:
05/25/08 - Hamilton Avenue School Parent Mina Bibeault Has Had Enough: She Files A Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against The Board Of Education
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