Segregated School Assemblies
First off here is the link to the CNN video about segregated school assemblies in a couple of cases.
http://tinyurl.com/rc8o98
This is an example of the misuse of the data being gathered by No Child Left Behind (I have accepted that NCLB is a fact of life at this point). As the teacher in the clip said this data is being gathered and aggregated along racial lines and is used in racial terms to help highlight the issue of the achievement gap between white students and minority students. (Asian students buck the trend and do as well or better than white students)
This data should not be used to hold seperate racially segregated assemblies to “motivate them” to do better. I know the principal was trying to do some good, however he failed. I know he was trying to do something good for the students however this is not the way to do it.
The other case where the African American and Latino students were brought in separately because two girls had a fight was so wrong on so many levels. First off if it is an isolated incident between two students: talk to THOSE students. The rest of the school that was uninvolved in the incident and were pulled into an assembly because they shared skin color with the offenders is just wrong. It also sends a message that the entire group is at fault for a single person’s misdoing.