I have to tell a story that happened to my friend (a 30 something, very white, bald man) at the walmart just 1 mile from my house. He walked out of the store tand saw a very young, white walmart employee sitting on the hood of his new car. He walked up and said "Nice car, is that yours?" The kid says "This is piece of shit. No way." So my friend says, "I know its not yours. Its mine! Get your ass off it." This kid started calling him all sorts of names, including nigga and telling him he didn't know who he was dealing with. My friend called the walmart store a few minutes later to complain and as he was describing the incident, he heard people laughing in the background as the manager made excuses for her employees behavior! Honestly, as an educator (professor in graduate school) and parent of elementary students, what our schools are doing is horrible. The school cares more about the standardized tests and their zero tolerance policies, than anything else. By the time I see students in grad school, many cannot do simple math. Yet somehow they made it through. The truth is there is an easy way to ensure that no child is left behind: just pass them. Teaching them is apparently too hard.