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Wouldn't it be easier to just say that only "x" amount of business can be given to a business owned by a white man??? Isn't that really the goal?

I keep hearing...Give me this because I'm black but don't treat me differently because I'm black.

I agree XXX,

And now we've got all the black girls in their own class at Parkview School! Maybe, wait! I have an idea! What about a magnet school for black girls! It could have a construction theme! Sorta like a Bob the Builder School!--oops, I mean Bianca the Builder School!

There MUST be a Grant somewhere for that!

Now THAT's INNOVATIVE thinking! That's what we need more of 'round here!

What about different classes for kids that want to learn and kids that do not want to learn at Southwest.
I am sick of my kids coming home and telling me that their class's are being disrupted@!

#@#@$#@ SICK!

It gives me great pleasure knowing that our School board spends time on matters such as these. I don't give a RIP who builds the schools! Let's get them built and start TEACHING!!!!!!!!!!

Deena, get OFF your scheme to hire all your poor friends and let's get on with some EDUCATION around here!

Deena, is hust lokin after her people. Its only fair. Her people have been discriminated by you people for years now.

You people on this chalkboard consistantly try to absolve your membership in the majority culture that orchestrated this situation of her people.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAaahahahahaha.

Good one.

I agree 100%. I think it is only fair that schools give the same opportunities to all firms. Women have slowly started to rise in their equal opportunity, but I think minorities still have a ways to go, but news like this gives me hope for the future.

Do you think we should pay invoices in 15 days? I'm not sure that the work can even be inspected in that time? As a taxpayer are you willing to pay more to get a higher percentage of MWBE companies. The law says that GCS has to take the lowest responsible bid. From what I have heard many of the MWBE companines are bonded. Personally I don't want non-bonded companies working on public schools. If they don't do the work correctly, in a timely manner there is no recourse to get any payments back, no insurance.

Although a worthy goal, I just want the best schools for the best price. The black community needs to worry about education not construction. The BOE is a board of EDUCATION! I know that raising the economic base of that community would help in the long run, but that is not the job of educators. Their job is to give the children the tools to be able to earn a good living and better their position in society.

Debora for School Board!!!!

I have absolutely given up on the BOE ever educating our kids. I have hopes for some change when Garth is elected, but I don't see some of these members ever putting the kids first.

Why Deena Hayes is on the SCHOOL board has always been a mystery to me. I honestly think she's using it to suit her own agenda and that's a travesty. What she's trying to do may be a worthy cause but doing it from where she sits on Eugene Street is inappropriate and unethical.

Word is that math scores across North Carolina are about to plummet, particularly for African-American students, when EOG results are released this week.

You would think the school board and administration would be concerned about that. Perhaps trying to devise strategies to improve math or hearing reports on successful efforts to improve math that could be used across the district.

Instead, they choose to waste time on an issue that has absolutely nothing to do with the core mission of a school board or school system. The Guilford County Board of Education seemingly wants to solve all of society's problems except the one they are directed to address: educating children.

By the way, any word on how much this report cost the taxpayers?

Just saying,

It's no surprise that math scores are going to drop big time. The state changed the test, and upped the ante on passing it. Remember, critics have argued for years that North Carolina's math test was so easy to pass you could practically "fall over" the bar. The state board earlier this month agreed to make it harder to pass the test.

We'll see how bad it is Wednesday. The state board will release ABC results and math AYP results then for K-8 schools.

Re: the MWBE study - it cost $22,000.

Thank you for the quick reply. That doesn't seem like a lot in the grand scheme of the GCS budget, but it's still $22,000 that could be better-used elsewhere.

Combine a number of these small but unnecessary expenditures together and before long, you have millions of wasted dollars.

$22,000 would have moved 4 trailers from Florence Elementary School's playground!

$22,000? That doesn't even buy me a new Lexus.

Don't you white fools get it? This is a public school system with public funds. That means mo money, mo money, mo money from the public feeding trough.

$22,000 would pay for a teachers assistant! In my previous post, I meant to say that many MWBE contractors aren't bonded for large contracts. That is a problem, of course if they don't make money its hard to grow their business to be able to do larger contracts.. its' one of those chicken/egg; which comes first things.

Employ more mexicans.

I bet I know what came first with the white owned businesses.

And speaking of Mexicans, they are sure to pass the African Americans in every category within the next few years. More income per household, better test scores in schools, etc, while Deena and Co. continue to lead their people to the handout line.

Deena Hayes is the best thing that has ever happened to the success of the Hispanic community.

In response to the earlier comment of "XXX", unless you are black you can not really speak on the black race as a whole. Your statement may be true for some African Americans but not all. Equality in this country in the job force and every other aspect for that matter is far-fetched and it may never get to that point!

Black, white, yellow, purple, pink or polka dot....anyone who is not bonded should not be building our schools. Look at what happened with the architectural design problems at the three middle schools this past year. Who will be paying for that in the end?