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District addresses minorities' concerns
AUBURN - Achievement, equity and perception.
These were the three concepts Eloise Benjamin ultimately heard Wednesday evening in the Booker T. Washington Community Center gymnasium. It was there that she and roughly 100 people - representing Auburn schools, parents, students and stakeholders in the African-American community - gathered to discuss the racism a growing number of blacks have collectively identified and say they can no longer tolerate in the Auburn Enlarged City School District.
Benjamin, a youth pastor, is the mother of a 14-year-old boy who was suspended following a confrontation with another student at Auburn High School last week. Benjamin believed her son was singled out by administrators and ultimately suspended from school because of his Puerto Rican and black heritage. She believed this because the other student involved, who is white, was allowed to return to school.
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