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School Colors

S2 E7: The Sleeping Giant

School Colors

Brooklyn Deep

Politics, Education, Government, News

5656 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In some ways, this entire season was prompted by the parents who organized against diversity planning in District 28. So in this episode, we let the opposition speak for themselves. Who are these parents? What do they believe and why? And why were they ready to fight so hard against a plan that didn't exist?

Transcript

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0:00.0

So right before we started, I was telling you how there was this diversity plan that was supposed to begin, but that it didn't because of the pandemic.

0:07.6

So you had, this is me tough, like...

0:10.5

This is my first time.

0:11.7

You never heard about it.

0:12.6

Never.

0:13.3

And I'm very much into figuring what's going on with school, what's going on in my community, and nothing.

0:21.6

You met Shermaine Baptiste and her son Elias at the end of the last episode.

0:25.6

I spoke to them in December 2021, more than two years after this proposed diversity planning

0:30.7

process set off a firestorm in District 28. But Shermain had never even heard of it.

0:35.8

I haven't heard nothing from it from anybody at all, nobody at all.

0:39.5

Nothing.

0:40.6

You just telling me this is the first time I heard it ever.

0:44.4

I didn't tell her much, but what she heard, she took personally.

0:47.9

I feel like they don't want my son around,

0:50.3

and then I even want to give him an opportunity.

0:55.0

Why? Tell me why. Why you don't want my son to be in that school?

1:01.0

Or, you know what I'm saying? Why? What is a threat?

1:04.0

You know what I'm saying? I don't understand what, why you, I would love to be in that meeting

1:09.0

to like ask the question.

1:11.6

What's the problem?

1:13.6

I explained to her some of the problems parents raised at a dramatic meeting of the Community Education Council, or CEC, in December 2019.

1:21.6

If we're going to be honest here, most families in Riga Park and Fours Hills are not going to put their kids on extensively

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