[Leaning Right]

I taught for many years at an urban public high school. At one staff meeting, a black supervisor told us that black student failures were the result of racist white teachers.

And we white teachers should apologize to our black students.

Did I apologize? Of course not. But I did accelerate my research into early retirement.

[Myrddin]

My very first Summer school class was "science" between 8th and 9th grade. We had one black student in the class. He wasn't doing very well with the class material and was often shouting "racial prejudice" to cover his failing performance. He lasted 2 weeks. My junior high and high school were top rated academically at that point in time. It was a time when parents moved to a district to get high quality schools and the local property taxes paid for high quality staff. Eventually, that mix of high local taxes and high quality schools was deemed "unfair". Taxes were diverted to the state where political favoritism controlled distribution of educational money.

My old high school was 2% latino, 3 black students, a handful of asian and the balance white when I attended. Today, the demographics are different.

Name	Total	African American	American Indian or Alaska Native	Asian	Filipino	Hispanic or Latino	Pacific Islander	White	Two or More Races	Not Reported
Hilltop Senior High	1,841	1.9%	0.6%	1.2%	1.7%	77.0%	0.2%	14.9%	2.3%	0.3%

The school "report card" is here and here

Suffice to say, the school is no longer the top of academic achievement. Disappointing. I taught at Southwestern College from 1980 to 1983. I enjoyed my classes. My students covered the full range of diversity in age, race, sex and ethnicity.