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Denver School Principal Backpedals After Sending Out Tutoring Signup for ‘Students of Color’ Only

Feb. 15, 2013 10:05am Madeleine Morgenstern

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An elementary school principal in Colorado is backpedaling after signup sheets sent home indicated an afterschool tutoring program was for children of color only.

The tutoring program at Mission Viejo Elementary in Aurora, Colo. is part of PASS, a district-wide initiative meant to “address the needs that children of color may need,” Cherry Creek School District spokeswoman Tustin Amole told KCNC-TV in Denver.

But the tutoring is open to all students, despite a note to parents sent last week that specified it was for “students of color.” That infuriated parent Nicole Cox, whose 10-year-old daughter is white and needs tutoring. Cox told KCNC she felt her daughter was being left out of the program because of her race.

“I just want every single person to be treated equally,” Cox said.

In a letter to parents this week, Mission Viejo principal Andre Pearson said he wanted to “express my regret” for the earlier communication describing the tutoring program with PASS, which stands for Parents of Academically Successful Students.

“The PASS committee is focused on partnering with the principal to close the racial achievement gap,” Perason wrote. “However the tutoring program is open for all students, regardless of race/ethnicity, and on a first come, first served basis…I am equally concerned about the success of all students who attend our wonderfully diverse school.”

Amole apologized for what the district said was the principal’s mistake.

“We deeply regret that they got that communication,” she said.

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John.Galt
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:57am
ok, so he was outed as a RACIST. Did he get fired? Reprimanded? Suspended without pay?

NO! BEING A RACIST IS FINE, AS LONG AS YOU ARE RACIST AGAINST WHITES.

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- cosette
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:23am
  @ John Gault….. I would take that a step further and contend that racism against whites is not only “okay” it’s encouraged, the tone being set at the highest level of government. Remember… “If I had a son he would look like Travon” and “The police acted stupidly” and “typical white people” not to mention the slugs boot licker at Justice, Eric “My People” Holder. America hating, communist, racist criminals, the lot of them. I hope every single white person who voted for the vermin eventually feels the sting of his bigotry.
  
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- FLOWNOVERandFORGOTTEN
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:24am
  The sad thing here is that we were there as a nation and then this admin put us back at least 3 generations in race relations. My kids don’t see color at all, I didn’t see any, but now it’s being thrown in my face every day. My parents didn’t see much color and have come around as they get older so I have to go all the way back to ONE of my grandparents who has been dead for over 25 years to remember anything truely racist. Like the rest of you, I assume, I acknowledge that we had significant racial problems in the past but for god’s sake we are all Americans. Not white Americans, Not black Americans, Not green Americans, just AMERICANS who need to come together and and get this country going in the right direction, again.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:00pm
  FLOWNOVERandFORGOTTEN, nice rhetoric, but rhetoric hardly ever translates into reality. We have strong anti-white racism, now, in this nation. Affirmative Action institutionalized this anti-white racism. Fact is, we are not colorblind. We’ve just substituted the color.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:05pm
  @cosette, actually those whites that voted for this dont see themselves as white, they are progressives, liberals or just hate white people too, much like South Parks’ openly gay Mr Garrison openly hating gay men. Having met white women that mate with black men only and hate white men, i see them as conflicted, africanized, and to me, only worthy of contempt. Am i a racist? no, i call it as i see it.
  
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- cosette
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 10:49am
  @Pragmatic patriot….. Their perception of themselves notwithstanding, they are none the less white and will be judged as such when the SHTF.
  
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- MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 6:38pm
  Yes sir. You, Brasil, Mil Dot, Tech and The_Jerk get it. Too bad the rest of em are blind.
  
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Unbelievable
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:54am
Andre Pearson: Oops!! I got caught being a racist.. Now I have to cover my azz!!

Sorry dude!! It’s not working… You’re nothing but a progressive racist pig!!

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geminimoon
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:52am
White, black, brown, red, and yellow are ALL colors…

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- BoldQuestioner
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:35am
  Technically, Black is the absence of color.
  
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- ssbstspd
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 1:10pm
  I am equally concerned about the success of all students who attend our wonderfully diverse school.” It amazes me how he gets away with such a statement.
  
  Translation : I am equally concerned about the success of all students who attend our wonderfully and almost fully non white school.
  
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- landowner
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:25pm
  Technically white is all colors. Not sure how many people would treat it that way but as interesting as black is the absence of color.
  
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FastJimmy3
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:49am
And we still continue to hear the adage “teachers are grossly underpaid”. Good Lord has sanity left this planet for good?

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Blitz
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:49am
Isn’t racism cute when it’s black on white? Where is the outrage Jesse, Al, anyone of color?

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COFemale
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:47am
I am finding more and more students coming into my college classes who need tutors as most have learning disabilities. I know this is going to sound harsh, but when I have 22 students and 18 can follow verbal directions and read instructions fine, I can’t stop every few minutes to help someone who doesn’t get it. It is not fair to the rest of the students. I think these students need to be in their own class, where the curriculum caters to them specifically. Many need one on one help and I just can’t provide that every few minutes. The computer class is already a fast past class and I am on page 5 when they are still on page 1. My first two weeks, I was not able to get through all the material. I don’t even think I got through half. Some also need quiet atmosphere, sorry ain’t going to happen.

Political correctness has gone awry by placing Oasis students in with regular students to make them fit in, that they are getting a great disservice and more likely to get frustrated. I am getting frustrated and I am a fairly patient person. I have one who I can tell 5 times show and how to do something and comes back the next class asking the same question. Ugh.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:56am
  You forget that we are all equal. We are the same. We must not judge. We must not discriminate. We must forget everything that our culture has learned through trial and error. We must regress in order to be more fair.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:26am
  How do kids with learning disabilities get into college in the first place?
  
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- hi
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:28am
  It’s really frustrating for my kids. They get it in 3 seconds, but then the teacher spends the next 3 weeks on the concept. So, then my kids get in trouble for day dreaming.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:01pm
  HI, tell them to keep the pencil sharpeners empty.
  
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gauge
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:45am
Andre Pearson-Principal apearson9@cherrycreekschools.org

And of course, he’s black.
http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2013/02/14/principal-andre-pearson-of-mission-viejo-elementary-school-in-aurora-colorado-bans-white-kids-from-after-school-tutoring-program/

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- 1digger
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:15am
  Not only contact the racist principal, but contact the districts Superintendent and school board:
  Mary Chesley, Superintendent rmcintire@cherrycreekschools.org,
  Board of Education ccsdboard@cherrycreekschools.org
  
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The_Jerk
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:43am
“… tutoring program was for children of color only… .”

I know of a medical school that did the same for its minority students.

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Nevermind
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:43am
AUsername

idk why it is but black folks are performing the worst out of any group by such a gap. Even when there given certain advantages like this by the goverment, they still can’t catch up to the other groups of people.
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As a black man i find your post funny and sad all at the same time. It isnt ” even when there given certain advantages” it is they’re you fool. So rather than worrying about black people you should go back to 3rd grade where you learn grammar.

Then again racism isnt based on hate is it based on stupidity and you are a shining example of that.

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- COFemale
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:51am
  For once I agree with you. If you are going to slam a group, better have your ducks in a row. Ignorance breeds ignorance. Many men regardless of race are poor spellers. I see this in my college classes. I have a white student whose spelling is that of a 1st grader.
  
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- Joshua81
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:22am
  Statistically he is correct. Even though he may have misspelled something doesn’t make his point any less valid. Do white people still misspell? Obviously, do some still need assistance with tutoring? Of course. However, as a whole, minorities are at the bottom of pile. Not all minorities of course, but as a whole, statistically, they are. Minorities are given AA and other advantages and yet fail to take advantage of them, or take them for granted. It’s unfortunate, this is some of the cause of the rampant crime in most inner cities where you find minorities living. They emulate those that have “raised” them. Why should they bust their tail in school and work hard to find a job that they have to put effort in everyday to EARN an income when they can just sit at home, get drunk and stoned, and have the government give them free healthcare, food stamps, and a welfare check? This is what they are taught at home, this is where the problem starts. Unfortunately, it is not where the problem ends.
  
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- Charbet
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:01pm
  @COFEMALE: Not to worry, I hear we aren’t going to teach kids how to write in cursive soon, so, you won’t have to read their messy writing. If his penmanship was so bad at that age, makes me wonder what kind of teachers he had? And of course it had to be the result of skin color? I must apologize, but I am missing what his being white had anything to do with it. Yup, gotta pay these liberal teachers more to teach our kids less. Makes perfect sense to me.
  
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perry1980
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:42am
Stupid is as Stupid does

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barber2
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:38am
Funny: ” students of color.” Isn’t white also considered a color ?? The goofy terminology which has infected our language and our thinking since the 60s doesn’t even get recognized for what it is.

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- Daniel
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:54am
  Actually, no. White nor Black are considered colors. They are both considered neutrals as I recall. I could be wrong about them being neutrals, but I remember that neither were considered colors. This is per the art teachers I had while going to school.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:56pm
  DANIEL: No black and no white . Persons of “color ? ” This all started when Black Power came in. And there are black and white crayons….
  
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Harlleyflhrci
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:26am
Why does this guy still have a job? I saw this story on Drudge and it makes me wonder if we will see it on CNN or NBC.

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- rosegrower
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:00am
  Two reasons – tenure and teacher’s union membership, Incompetence rules when you have no possible way of getting rid of the bums.
  
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Mil-Dot
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:25am
This kind of crap continues to occur and will only increase in it’s frequency. The progs are actively discriminating against white people almost to the point of war. They are despicable. This catering to and giving superior rights and privilege to blacks and minorities is going to stop or people are going to revolt. The fact is that most everything in this country that is worth a crap was invented by or developed by white people or Asians. Not that good things have not come out of the black and Latino communities. They have. Especially the Latinos. But, this blatant preferential treatment and flat out exclusion against the snowman and his kids is gonna’ get somebody hurt if it continues. I for one am sick of it.

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Tigress1
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:24am
“People of color”. What are white people? Clear?

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:32am
  Used to be Flesh in the crayola box. Now we are transparent. And only good for feeding and clothing the “People of Color”
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:33am
  White is absent of color, therefore we are a people of no color.
  
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- rosegrower
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:01am
  Cofemale
  According to physics, white is the combination of ALL colors – therefore, white people are the only real people of color on the planet.
  
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- 00100111
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:32am
  Skin color has to do with pigmentation, not the visible spectrum of light.
  
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Thundergod
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:22am
Now Obama wants indoctrination of children to begin at four years old so parents have less input into what their children are raised to believe and requiring more taxpayer funds for public education. What a joy big government is when they take more responsibility to program children to their liking,and lifting the burden off of people from actually having to parent their children.

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AUsername
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:22am
idk why it is but black folks are performing the worst out of any group by such a gap. Even when there given certain advantages like this by the goverment, they still can’t catch up to the other groups of people.

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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:32am
  They are not only given “advantages”, they are given other people’s money, they don’t have to meet the same standards for college entrance, quotas for their inclusion where they would otherwise not be qualified are vehemently enforced, they get free college education, and the cards are purposefully stacked against the white kids. They have been given EVERYTHING to the point of absurdity. It is not the system, it is them.
  
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- e7705
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:33am
  they’re
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:02am
  Your statement is out of line Ausername. I have all races in my college class who have learning disabilities, so this is not just a black problem. I admire those with challenges attending college, but I also recognize they need special handling and they may not get this in my class. My class is hands on, but I have several who need too much one on one help that I just don’t have the time to give them in my class. Many need tutors, which the college provides to them free, some use them, so do not.
  
  This principal had good intentions, but delivered the message wrong.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 1:34pm
  A User is a burgeoning aryan of the Jihad Jerk meme. Excuse it, ignore it.
  
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fastgen1
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:21am
It’s all part of the brainwashing program forced on our children by the liberals. The idiot must have had his head up bammys ****…..Wants to get invited to the white house, bad news buddy, he will be golfing, again……

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Just Jake
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:14am
You cannot privatize education fast enough.

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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:54pm
  never happen JAKE, public education is in the communist manifesto and weve been assimilated…
  
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RaydocX
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:14am
Reverse racism is STILL racism.
The progs need to be treated like they treat others when they CLAIM racism is at work.
Funny, though, that never happens.
‘I meant the best’ seems to be all the apology needed when it’s a lefty behaving in a racist manner.

But someday the sheeple will realize their supposed champions are only keeping them in the inner city cattle pens for their own power, and in fact are the ones who hold the most racist attitudes.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:24am
  I’m not nearly as sure as you are that that someday will ever come. Not in my lifetime anyway.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:46am
  @Gonzo,
  sadly i agree, but try to keep hoping.
  if i get to skeptical why keep fighting, eh?
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:52am
  I am with Gonzo on that one. They will never reach that conclusion. They will always be takers and under-achievers.
  
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RightUnite
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:11am
This fool needs to be fired, the d*mn hypocrite!

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barber2
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:11am
Think it is maddening that after 60 years of Affirmative Action and skads of money spent, that “minorities” in our educational system are still where they are. Money thrown at it is NOT the answer. Changing the “culture” of the minority community is. That is NOT what the black Democrats are focusing on which is why we will NEVER solve this problem.

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Gonzo
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:10am
I’m slightly amazed they will even acknowledge that there is a “racial achievement gap”. Shouldn’t that (gasp) “offend” somebody?

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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:10am
If only we could one day see a president of “Color”.
Racism (against people of color) should have died in America thirty years ago. The victom mentallity is out of control to all aspects of our society… because we embrace it.

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- mewnani
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:32pm
  In history class slavery is king now. I’m taking a college history class and it’s all about slavery. The last chapter was about Salem and the Salem Witch Trials and they dedicated a large part of the lesson to how women were treated badly. They’re breeding hatred in the students, teaching all the things white people did against black people, all the bad things they did against women, all the bad things they did against immigrants… they’re trading actual history for indoctrination. We’re white, so we’re the bad guys. You’re black, you’re a victim. You’re a girl; you’re a victim. It’s all a lie.
  
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Fubared
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:08am
A racist principle. NEA needs more funding and this guy will get a raise after this settles down. An all white tutoring pamphlet would be national news for a month.

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CHROME_PLATED_HEART
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:06am
…like they could read it anyway…

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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:25am
  The real story is when written he could not even see anything was wrong with the policy…
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:35am
  Here comes the Department Of Illiteracy.
  
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