So, in other words, Thomas is suggesting that we hire black teachers to appease the black students, Latino teachers to appease the Latino students, and Asian teachers to appease the Asian students. Or, in other words, set racial quotas in hiring teachers.
In Alaska, our ghettos are the native villages. Alcohol, drugs, violence, racism, sex child abuse rates of 75% (it's cultural), students all 5-6 years below grade level, no economy, no way out, no future, all on govt welfare (they actually think its their paycheck), just terrible social problems. Sad places with sad faces.
A few white teachers can handle it, but most don't last. When they finally get one native teacher out of 100's first thing they do is get out of the village as fast as they can. They won't raise their kids there either.
Last week up Kivalina, half the teachers up and quit; both native and white teachers. They closed the school down, except the gym so they could play basketball, important things you know. Guess they shot up their houses, killed and hung their dogs on posts, beat a few of them up. Rough in-bred crowd up Kivalina, but not all natives are animals; many real decent respectable people. But in the end, they all stick together against whitey or the USA. Even when they see their village being turned into a ghetto.
Are inner-city ghettos any different? Would you teach there if you were a minority?
What an incredibly racist remark. Imagine the outcry if a white majority school district said they couldn't accept black teachers for this reason.