Thomas Jefferson High School again

I don’t buy this.  The whole purpose of high school clubs is to learn leadership skills and develop friendships.  There are plenty of clubs which will mingle children of different races and cultures—math club, Spanish club, thespians—but the leader of the black students club should be an African American.  TJHS doesn’t have very many blacks now; don’t dilute their effectiveness and learning opportunities.  And no, I don’t want a guy in charge of young mothers club.

Of the 1,800 students who attended TJ last year, only 34 were black and 42 were Hispanic, school figures show. The overwhelming majority of their classmates were Asian (906) and white (787).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/problem-or-progress-white-student-leads-black-club-at-n-virginia-high-school/2012/04/01/gIQArXXkpS_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines