Chandra Hooper-Barnett, an award winning black principal, lost her job after her controversial statements about the academic performance of black students. Will her departure help, or hurt, these black students?

Wordpress ^ | October 29, 2025 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

Chandra Hooper-Barnett, an award winning black principal, lost her job after her controversial statements about the academic performance of black students. Will her departure help, or hurt, these black students?

I asked Grok: “Fact check recent claims by a school principal named Chandra Hooper-Barnett. Also fact check the claims of her critics. Talk about her past awards as a teacher. Will the students be better off, or worse off, now that she is no longer working at the school?”

This is Grok’s response:

Here’s a news article about this:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dallas-principal-removed-calling-meeting-181828135.html

Dallas principal removed after calling meeting with only Black students about their grades: ‘You guys are the reason we are not an A school’

Graig Graziosi

October 29, 2025

Photo description: Woodrow Wilson High School Principal Chandra Hooper-Barnett has been removed from her position at the Dallas-area school after she allegedly called a meeting with Black students to blame them for the school’s “B” academic rating (Dallas Independent School District)

[popdonnelly]

How does getting this Principal fired help anyone?

[LouAvul]

You can’t fix a problem if the problem demographic has no desire to improve. The only way to fix that problem is to expel the problem demographic.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

To me, the issue is whether the students were chosen by race or preformance. If she had an assembly with only black kids selected for their skin color, it’s wrong. If she selected the 100 worse underperformers, and they happened to all be black, which unfortunately is highly likely, it was ill-considered.

I go along with the maxim variously attributed, “I praise in public and admonish in private.”

I also wonder about lecturing to the unreachable. Find the kids who have more potential, find ways to encourage them. Telling them they disappoint you will alienate them.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

He refused to even consider leaving his ghetto.

Cherchez la femme. Toujours, cherchez la femme.

[arthurus]

But it is RACIST to say that black kids are not exactly even with the smartest white kids. It is racist also to grade black kids lower than white kids. If they fall behind they must be told they are A students and then given As.

[arthurus]

As determined by blacks or just claimed by blacks.

[griswold3]

“You guys are the reason…” is never a good starting line!

[arthurus]

I just read a book of Louis Armstrong’s letters and some published pieces. He was constantly exasperated by black people preferring “to lazy,” preferring to lie around in the house or drink beer to working for money. That was a hundred years ago.

[arthurus]

I just read a book of Louis Armstrong’s letters and some published pieces. He was constantly exasperated by black people preferring “to lazy,” preferring to lie around in the house or drink beer to working for money. That was a hundred years ago.

[BFW]

With power comes responsibility, with great power comes great responsibility.

And then when you think your shit doesn’t stick you put your foot so far down your own throat you kick your own ass....then you emerge as a “Unilateral moron”.

[rellic]

Unfortunately I took Mandarin Chinese
when younger. No french classes
but the American language has so
much French influence in it we ignorant ones can figure it out.
The internet is very rich with
French phraseology.
I presume your context is he a “Moma’s boy”?

[HereInTheHeartland]

This woman is a great American and an example that God created us all with gifts .
Black kids can do as well as white kids if they grow up in a normal environment .
Politicians support policies to keep black kids in substandard environments

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

AI overview, for those who are search engineless:

"Cherchez la femme" is a French phrase meaning "look for the woman". It originated from the 1854 Alexandre Dumas novel, The Mohicans of Paris, and has become a classic phrase in detective fiction to suggest a mystery can be solved by identifying a female love interest or a "femme fatale". The phrase can also be used humorously to suggest that a woman is the cause of a man's troubles, though this usage can be considered sexist.

[randomwalk]

“Chandra Hooper-Barnett- Zippy-Pinhead”