Saturday, August 9, 2014

AP / Yahoo News Kennett Square, Pa: White students no longer to be majority in school (Must have taken every last ounce of remnant professional self-control for AP not to end this headline with a celebratory exclamation mark.)


White students no longer to be majority in school  
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — The cheerful sign outside Jane Cornell's summer school classroom in Pennsylvania's wealthiest county says "Welcome" and "Bienvenidos" in polished handwriting.
Inside, giggling grade-schoolers who mostly come from homes where Spanish is the primary language worked on storytelling with a tale about a crocodile going to the dentist. The children and their classroom at the Mary D. Lang Kindergarten Center, near both mushroom farms and the borough's bucolic red-brick downtown, are a subtle reminder of America's changing school demographics. ...
    "subtle reminder"? Only for European Americans who are very, very slow learners.