Monday, December 17, 2007

What the NAACP Fort Wayne-Allen County shared with the United States Justice Department

No one wants to be called a racist; therefore, some schools may attempt to hide the fact that their schools have a problem with racial incidents. Schools may discourage reporting racial incidents with staff that are unaware of the policy for reporting racial incidents or are unaware of what constitutes a racial incident.


The NAACP suggests that by raising the awareness of students and staff on what is a racial incident will help to eliminate racial harassment and threat that occur on school property. In reducing, the number of racial incidents at schools it will make the learning environment a safer place for students and staff.

NAACP learned from the recent racial incident at Heritage junior senior high school that the school was not following its own policies for handling racial incidents for reporting incidents. In addition, some parents were unaware of the school policies for handling racial incidents or that the school had a complaint form for reporting such incidents.

Some of the NAACP recommendations:

 To work with community leaders to establish a working relationship with the community
 To provide assistant and support to community leaders who are willing to work with the NAACP.
 To provide background information to organization on the history of the National NAACP
 To provide information to organizations on the role of the local NAACP in supporting the goals of the National NAACP in the community
 To share the finding of this incidents with other organization within the community and other agencies working to eliminate racism.
 To provide a working definition for schools on what constitute a racial incident
 To request that school keep a more accurate account of racial incidents occurring in their schools and to secure the doors to the enter into the schools
 To support legislature against hate crimes
 To form a racial task force team for racial education within the Fort Wayne-Allen County area by the FW-Allen County NAACP
 To create a survey to be distributed among the district schools to measure the racial climate in the area schools

Others including increasing teacher pay for students working in predominately African-American school to that of teachers working in predominately raced white schools; to increase the recruitment of African-American teachers by working with organizations that are more experienced in recruiting teachers.

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