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The parents that have been complaining loudly in High Point have a candidate. His name is Garth Hebert. Yes, he is the representative that those people will support. They are doing something about it, not just criticizing, thank you very much. So, you must be talking to someone else.

Allen, we supported a candidate, highly qualified, highly motivated. You refused to endorse him. Instead you supported the same old faces who've run it into the ground. The candidate took the high road and tried to keep politics out of it. He tried to run on a platform. He refused party identification, believing it was inappropriate for an at-large position. He believed, like we all do, that corrupt partisan and racial politics have run Guilford Co. schools into the ground, so he refused to campagaign or otherwise susscribe to it. He was defeated by the Guilford co. Dem. machine who gave people the other candidate's name on a piece of paper and told them to vote.

There are qualified motivated candidates now who will run again. "La Machine" will pick one again, out of poltics and not out of any educational philosophy.

For you to say people should try to change things by using the system, it's been done. What planet are you living on. You actively tried to thwart it. And I suspect you will again. You saying people aren't trying is being Childsian, (dis-ingenuous) again.

Don’t you think it damming that Grier and the board have spent two years saying "High Point is different" when there is a much bigger problem in our county? Of course I refer to Smith and Dudley. Both these schools are less diverse than any High Point school. Smith has the highest Student to teacher ratio in the county.
You have allowed Kearns and Mendenhall of Emorywood to dominate the school boards agenda for the last two years. Now we have two schools that are on the verge of being closed down. If the members of the school board are real true integral people they will stand up and shout (in the words of marti Sykes) "These kids need diversity". Funny thing is that Judge Manning doesn’t say anything about diversity in his recipe for a successful school!

No Allen, plenty of people throughout the County see plenty wrong the with the school system. Please don't hide behind the fact that no one moved into Alan Duncan, Deena Hayes, or Marti Sykes' districts.

It was pretty covenient that you omitted the fact that where parents could and want to do something about it, that there is a race. Why did you choose to overlook this fact?

Is this how you actually "Think Outloud?"

Speaking for my family, we decided to put our daughter's fate into a much more qualified organization, that would be one of the private schools in High Point.

Are you aware that there are some nutcases over in High Point with the HP branch of the NAACP that actually tried to put me on a guilt trip, said that I was supporting segregation by putting our daugther in HPCA. It was quite the thrill for me to get to correct these misguided members of the NAACP over at Providence Place at the Community Forum about 6 or 8 weeks ago. You know those community forums where these hardworking School Board members ignore what the majority of the public has to say.

Allen,

you were part of the solution ok. You fell for it hook line and sinker.

The Joke is on you. The poop is on North High Point and Parkview.

Allen,

your one-sided reporting continues. you keep spinning things to paint the "Devils Spawn" in the best light and to discredit those who would affect positive change. Do you need a lesson in candidate eligibility requirements? If one doesn't live in the district for which a seat is up for grabs, one cannot run for that seat. DUH!!!

Allen,

Would you propose that ALL School Board seats be at-large? Please write an editorial to that effect. I assure you that every seat will be contested if all seats were at-large.

All School Board seats AT-LARGE!

I refuse to waste my breath arguing this one.

Allen,

Ready to desegregate Dudley yet, if only to save it? It may be out of the school board's hands soon, if Judge Manning orders it broken into several smaller pieces. Someone should have been doing something to save Dudley for a long time. Judge Manning did not speak highly of this school's performance. The school board's solution in HIgh Point was to diversify. Perhaps the time has arrived in Greensboro.

Allen, you posted this and kind of disappeared. Hopefully you're busy writing the editorial to get those Page and Grimsley down to the schools where they are needed. We'll be watching the editorial page. I'm sure we'll hear from you soon, right?

Oh, I'm still here. Sometimes it's better to listen to comments and respond rather than feel a need to rebut each one -- you know -- have the last word.

Having been pushed beyond frustration on challenges for me to push for Dudley's desegregation, I've decided, beginning today, to begin re-running a series of articles we've written over the past seven years addressing this very issue.
I don't know where y'all have been all this time.

Wonderful, I'll find it interesting historial reading from the archives, but a current view does not show that anyting has changed as a result of your ongoing series of articles. Why not use your bully pulpit as the editor to get the school board's attention on this? It may be too late if Judge Manning follows through on his threats.

You've written a series of articles that dealt with abstract concepts. "Re-segregation" blah blah, blah. Get right down on it. Exhort Marti and Kris and Alan to get their neighbors and kids down there. Come on, you and Doug, get CONCRETE, say Grimsley to Smith / Page to Dudley. This is the only way you can possibly go. Where else are you going to go to get the white kids? Mars?

You know you don't have the rocks. The Grnsboro oligarchs will hang you out to dry. Yo know it. You made it seem like this whole thing was about principle and it's about scam. You have to live with it.

While such a pronouncement might make sound satisfying (after all what's good for the goose, right?) I'm not sure if it would be logistically practical.
While the broader issue of resegregation needs addressing in many schools, a one-size-fits-all solution may not be possible.

Allen, we're talking about the educational salvation of hundreds of at-risk kids here who are just plain not going to get the opportunity otherewise. Some rich Irving Park punks might get inconvienenced. The hell with them. We have to make it work, by God!

Marti said it, "Those kids need diversity."

Allen, in the school boards discussion of Dudley and Smith tonight there was absolutely no mention of the word "diversity". Do you need anymore proof that the school board has discriminated against High Point?
Griers solutions actually were about Education and resources!

As someone said on the Cb. Diversity has now served its purpose. It is dead.

Once again. Do you need anymore proof? Dont you agree we have the right to be digusted?