Letters: Black Parents Association has unrealistic expectations

Hugh Harmon with the Black Parents Association said Richland 2 School Board Chairman James Manning should step down because “If there’s one parent who feels that their child is being treated unfairly, that’s too many.”

Is he kidding? In our Age of Entitlement, there isn’t a day that goes by without an outraged parent showing up at school demanding that a teacher be fired because Special Little Snowflake didn’t get straight A+ grades despite never completing assignments and not bothering to answer questions on tests. Or perhaps another student said something that Special Little Snowflake didn’t like and the teacher, despite being completely unaware of the comment, didn’t immediately ship Bad Little Snowflake off to an alternative school.

Perhaps the Black Parents Association has some legitimate complaints. With a black-majority school board it’s hard to imagine, but maybe. My observation that teachers are routinely thrown under the bus whenever a parent complains about anything leads me to suspect that the only problem the Black Parents Association has with James Manning is that he is the wrong color.

This story was originally published June 2, 2016 at 5:44 PM with the headline "Letters: Black Parents Association has unrealistic expectations."