(08-16-2022, 05:22 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-16-2022, 02:38 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: It's not racism for you to gravitate towards someone who looks like you. When you see a person who may be like you succeeding and caring, it can be reassuring and affirming. That said, people need to start making themselves aware of the reality that the raising people UP to a standard is progressive and dropping people below a standard is regressive. If the group isn't being made better by these types of changes, those changes need to go. And, despite what Mikey says, putting color restrictions on teachers has not elevated the students in minority communities.

 I don't think anyone's done a controlled study on the teacher race versus student race question. As far as I understand, it is all correlation. But it is a strong correlation, and I wouldn't blame a school system for making a policy based on the correlation.