3 Responses to “PH/School Board roundup”

1. posted by Carol A.O. Wolf at May 10, 2008 11:37 am :
   

   To All:

   I have read the proposal and invite anyone who has questions of the School Board to please send them to me at Wolfies@aol.com. If you can submit your questions as soon as possible, I promise to make sure answers are available prior to — or at — the May 15th meeting. The following statement is one I posted on the RVA NewsBlog:

   “Since this is still a free country and people supposedly are free to speak their minds, I want to make something perfectly clear. I took issue with my colleague from the First District using “research and studies” to pose a question in a manner that albeit “innocent,” still suggested that the PHSI effort was likely to increase segregation in our city.

   I realize it may shock the sensibilities of some members of the School Board to learn that more than 50 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, the City of Richmond still has a segregated school system. The only difference that 50 years seems to have made is that we now have “de facto” as opposed to “de jure” segregation.

   To suggest that the PHSI effort “might” increase segregation and asking the PHSI families what they will do to address this concern, impugns the integrity and intelligence of the people bringing this proposal forward.

   I ask that one and all visit the “SchoolMatters” website and compare Mary Munford Elementary and Woodville Elementary School. The data available on that website illustrates the reality far more powerfully than any words I can command.

   Woodville has 627 students and the student population is 99.7 per cent Black.

   Mary Munford has 515 students and the number of Black students enrolled there comprise only 19.6 per cent of the student population.

   Before anyone dares to ask the PHSI families again what they are going to do to avoid increasing segregation in Richmond, I would like to know what sitting board members have done — or will do — to alleviate the racial and economic segregation that continues to exist in our city schools.”

2. posted by Gray at May 10, 2008 8:32 pm :
   

   I wish we had more like Wolf on Board. Some of the BS…I mean SB members really need to go come next election.

3. posted by Carol A.O. Wolf at May 10, 2008 9:18 pm :
   

   Thank you …

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