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Worcester Is MAJOR!™

Worcester Is MAJOR!™: 9/19/10 - 9/26/10

Friday, September 24, 2010

Fall Foliage vs. Caribbean Foliage

Monday, September 20, 2010

Boston Public Schools the MOST segregated?

Tell me something that we don't already know! Having a number of friends that are public school teachers in Boston, they've been talking about the diversity in BPS for more than a few decades.

Some people say that Boston residents self-segregate, which I do believe is true, the "red-lining" in Boston has been taking place since the early 1940s and came to a head in the '60s and '70s. 

Just look at the pockets of blacks and Latino folks that live in Dorchester, Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Hyde Park to name a few.

While desegregation through race-related initiatives- using race to determine what school a child is assigned to- isn't the way to go, there has to be a solution (one that I certainly don't have) that school superintendents can use as a work-in-progress (WIP) and assess it's effectiveness within a a 3 to 5-year period.

Until then, the Millennial Generation will continue to argue that racism doesn't exist because the President is a black man and they've grown up during an era where they've seen women, Latinos and Asians in "positions of power". SMH.

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