It's all over now, no use in stallin'. . .
Where were you when I needed you?
Where were you when I wanted you?
That's what parents at the five schools slated for closure should sing to Dot Scott, NAACP President, who has finally broken her deafening silence concerning CCSD's School Redesign plans. [See School Closings Spark Race Questions]
Ignoring Scott, as we all should at this point, let's notice instead that this sorry state of affairs has been caused by years, in fact, decades of CCSD's decisions regarding these schools. The P & C's numbers are stark:
- The five schools that will close enroll nearly 1,600 students, 72 percent of whom are black.
- Fewer than 75 white students attend the five schools that will be closed.
Here are the statistics that CCSD refuses to provide:
- How many white students zoned for these schools attend CCSD schools outside of their attendance zone with CCSD's permission?
- How many black students zoned for these schools attend CCSD schools outside of their attendance zone with CCSD's permission?
- How will closing these schools affect CCSD's performance on the next round of NCLB benchmarks?
The discussion around school closures should be about what the plans are to improve education for those students, Bloomfield said. A lousy professional baseball team can improve its record by trading its players, but that doesn't mean its former players got any better, he said. The same is true for schools.
"School closure doesn't necessarily guarantee success," he said. "It just guarantees time for the district leadership."
Exactly. Take a gander at the sorry underside of Superintendent McGinley's plans "to help the children."
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