Editor: History needs to be taught, and like all unhappy truth, information must be given in a way that the children can accept it. The racial makeup of my bi-racial grandson’s 4th grade class was all white, but him. The clueless white teacher (in Douglas County, of course) shared the information about slavery with no prior warning to our family. My grandson was traumatized, and spent the next 8 years of DC schools with his white classmates looking at him whenever slavery was discussed. Denver is segregated, and the white sections are in need of information and heart.
— Patricia Lillian via letters@sentinelcolorado.com
you might be reading something into this that is not there. Every school kid is not a racist… you only have a Half or less black kid. I think if you want the “looks” to be different put him in a mostly black school so the white kid is the odd one. Any difference in school is a reason to pick on a kid- well hell I had red hair and was a hated Irish kid. Teach tolerance and everything else will work its self out