'Racial Incident' in Texas School Plunges City into Turmoil

Here's another example of liberal do-gooding back-firing spectacularly. The principal of Bastrop Middle School, Teri Watson, did what liberal lawmakers and government bureaucrats have done for years. She tried to help some of her students by identifying them as members of an underachieving racial group - rather than as underachieving individuals. She noticed a worrying trend at her school: Black students as a group were doing far worse academically than other racial and ethnic groups and this in turn, would affect her school funding. So, she called the group out - over the intercom - gave them a pep talk and showed them a chart of their test scores as inspiration to improve. Lo and behold, don't these same eighth grade students complain to their folks about how the principal had acted racist against them. The very next day, the school wrote letters of apology to the parents for the principals conduct. On top of that, the school district's superintendent published an apology in the local newspaper and indicated that black students were doing poorly due to the "school's academic shortcomings." But, that wasn't enough for the parents. So, the school board is now implementing a "diversity plan" that among other things will affect future hiring and training of teachers. In the meantime, the parents have held protest marches to get the school to fire the principal. One can only imagine what the 'diversity' plan is going to lead to as it's been shown over and over that these types of programs usually create more problems than they solve. What this principal should have done is treated these kids as individuals and have them accept individual responsibility for their academic shortcomings. Instead, the Black pack mentality has been unleashed and we all know how well Blacks do that. There is of course another way to deal with this issue.....

Community members came together in Bastrop Tuesday evening to protest what they say was an act of racism at an area middle school.

Earlier this year, the principal of Bastrop Middle School pulled aside a group of African-American students and told them the school was performing poorly due to their academic conduct.

“When they called our names over the intercom, all the black peoples’ names in the eighth-grade, for one we were already embarrassed,” student Felicity Higgins said. “I didn't know what was going on and I was already embarrassed. Then when I got in there and she started talking about test scores and then she holds up a poster board and that's supposed to mean something to me? It doesn't at all. It doesn't mean anything to me.”

Hailey Meeks attends Bastrop Middle School as well, but she said she wasn’t invited to the meeting because school officials misidentified her as white.

“They didn't blame me because I was white?” she said. “Made me feel upset, I was pretty mad.”

Protestors marched from an area church to Bastrop ISD’s headquarters in anticipation of a board meeting Tuesday evening.

During the meeting, district officials worked on developing a diversity plan that would take effect before next school year. It would promote diversity awareness to students and teachers alike in hopes of preventing something like this from happening again.

“It's going to look at our staffing trends,” Doug Williams with Bastrop ISD said. “It's going to look at things from a curriculum standpoint. It's also going to look at what are some of the things we can do to be able to be successful in Bastrop ISD.”

Some in the community believe the principal of Bastrop Middle School should step down as a way of apologizing.

Bastrop ISD's superintendent wrote public apology for the incident.

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