Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Calling all Idealists
Ok so I thought I might as well tell you what we are doing with this diversity thing at Park high. So a few years ago this English guy a nice big Prof. was paid mad cash to come and do a diversity study on Park high and like offer recommendations on how to improve the climate and such. In the words of one science teacher at park who I will now misquote "Seems like a waste of money though, I mean you could send any random person down the hall and tell em to interview 10 kids for the same results." Which is very true, cuz basically Park high is what even my Mom calls "Minnesota nice" which is basically white people pretending to exist in a multicultural society when really people of different backgrounds live rather segregated. Ah so the guy did a good job and basically ended up showing what they predicted it would show, "Minnesota nice". So you would expect that they would do something with this now formalized info right? Na foo you wrong. The study is kept on the DL por que? who knows. Anyway so Ms Nova luna M. of Grinnell formerly of Park, did this project rediscovering all this and decided to start the revolution. So she got some cats together (anyone interested) and now we are trying to get this study and really the issue brought to light. Ah much easier said than done since kids are rather apathetic these days, and school boards don't want bad PC. So we are trying to get a "coalition" (made unpopular by a shrub) of students, groups at school, different members of the staff, and community to put some effort into this thing and get the ball rolling cuz really, who don't need some love?

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