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ask anything: 10 questions with durham schools’ superintendent
by Kelly H.Published Jul. 22, 2008
Durham Public Schools Superintendent Carl Harris is the latest “Ask Anything” guest to answer your questions.
He is the third school leader to participate in “Ask Anything.” Wake Superintendent Del Burns and State Superintendent June Atkinson also answered viewers’ questions.
All this week, we’re taking questions for Duke Football Coach David Cutcliffe. Click here to ask him anything!
Thanks to everyone who has participated!
- Kelly H. (WRAL.com web editor)
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July 22, 2008 9:20 a.m.
In other words, people in those bleachers had naturally chosen to be with others with whom they had a lot in common - with whom they felt most comfortable.
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July 22, 2008 9:19 a.m.
We had a moment of small talk but soon got around to talking about the terrible racial divide in Durham. As we walked to our seats, I asked the African to tell me what he saw in the bleachers. He quickly saw what I was getting at: The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of students in the stands, along with their parents, were segregated along racial and ethnic lines. Whites sat together in groups, and blacks sat together in groups. It was a virtual Balkans in the bleachers. My point to the school administrator was that he and his teachers could not do what society at large does not do: force people, in their natural state, to associate with people with whom they prefer not to associate. In other words, people in those bleachers had naturally chosen to be with others with whom they had a
July 22, 2008 9:18 a.m.
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