The Michigan school district investigating whether an elementary school field trip that excluded white students was illegal has disbanded the black-students-only academic support group that participated in the outing two weeks ago.
“We have essentially put it on hold while we wait for the final determination on the investigation into possible violation of the State's Proposal 2,” Ann Arbor School District spokeswoman Liz Margolis told FoxNews.com.
Thirty members of the Dicken Elementary School’s AA Lunch Bunch, a support group designed to bridge the gap in test scores between white and black students, were taken on a field trip two weeks ago to meet Alec Gallimore, an African-American rocket scientist who is an aerospace engineering professor and propulsion lab director at the University of Michigan.
The school principal, Mike Madison, who is black, helped organize the trip, saying he hoped to encourage the students to pursue a career in the sciences. Hoping to quell rising tensions over the black-students-only outing, Madison sent a lengthy letter home to parents in which he explained the reasoning behind the trip.
He admitted, however, that it could have been “approached and arranged in a better way.” This is the follow-up from Bob's Post on May 6th. Apparently Michigan has a new law preventing any kind of discrimination in the school programs. So now the AA Lunch Bunch has been thrown away with yesterday's milk cartons. Too bad for the kids. This would not have been necessary if the school principal hadn't made the situation worse with a follow up letter to parents explaining his rationale for the exclusive trip, which upset people further. Truth be told, I think the idea of a special field trip for these kids was not a bad idea. What would have happened if everyone could go? A nice field trip for all of the kids. Imagine that.
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