Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Muskegon school board president injects race into education discussion | MLive.com

Muskegon school board president injects race into education discussion | MLive.com
MUSKEGON, MI - Muskegon Public Schools' board president inserted race into a conversation about special education, insinuating that another board member couldn't relate because he's not African American. 
Board member Zachery Anderson suggested at a recent board meeting that the district should provide more support to teachers when it comes to special education and behavioral issues. 
The board president said the issue is a generational one that the board has little control over at the meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 14. 
"You ain't got no control over people and how they raise their kids," board President Louis Churchwell told Anderson. 
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"You ain't got no control over what's black, cause you're not black. ... You wake up and realize that."  
Churchwell, who works for Muskegon County Family Court, said that degrees "don't mean anything." 
"I'm from poverty, I'm black and I hold that degree, so everything you want to know about that, I've lived it," he said..."
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