A few days ago we had our Opening Ceremonies for Charlottesville City Schools... all the teachers from the 11 schools packed into the CHS auditorium wearing our various school t-shirts and the dust from our classrooms.
The vice superintendent Gertrude Ivory spoke (where was Superintendent of the Year Rosa Atkins? No one knows). But Ms. Ivory is an incredible speaker. She is sincere, inspirational, and honest. While listing CCS's accomplishments, she also mentioned that we have all too many non-proficient readers graduating from our schools. She mentioned test scores and diversity, growing ESL populations and creative innovations.
She led into her speech with this statement (or close to it):
We need our schools to be filled with both excellence and equity. Because excellence without equity is privilege. And equity without excellence will lead our students to mediocrity that serves no one.
Here we go...
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