TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN,

My name is doronda mckoy and i am a current student at bookre t washington hs. every year in febuary we have a multi-cultural assembly reflecting the many different culturals we have at our school. on the last day of this week we show the african american cultural. this year a couple of students including ourselves noticed that there was nothing in the assembly pertaining to african americans, and nothing else planned to even reconize that this is BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!!! we gathered a couple of seniors as well as some concerned juniors and set up a meeting with the assistant principal Mr. Woodson, to explain our concern. he was not able to join the meeting so we were sent to the 2nd ass. principal Mrs. Stacy. during this meeting we expressed our concerns as well as asking how come nothing was even being done for black history month. she listened to us but made it quite clear that she was not incharge of our assemblies. so we asked could we read off some "today in black history facts" everyday on the morning annoucments. she reflected that this was a great idea and that we could start the following day. when a fellow student, dionne buxton and i went to show that assistant principal our black fact for that day for us to read off on the morning announcments he basically brushed us off saying that he was not informed about this and to, quote,"slow your boat!"
now we are currently waiting for this meeting, we are still highly dissapointed and mad! we do not undersatnd how a school that was based on the african american community not realize that a matter this big was being over looked. we as students should not have to bring this to our administration, this should be somrthing that is already in place. i as a student wanted to inform you on what was going on at your alma-mata. we hope that you share the same concern as us, and will inform your fellow alumni.


sincerly, doronda mckoy c/o 07

Doronda, it is indeed a honor to see our newcomers of the (B.T. Washington) body stress for the administration to honor our Black History Month, as a almuni of the class of 1981 I will make sure my classmates know what is happening and we will also voice our opinion to the administration of our black history school
(Booker T Washington High School), because as I see it they have taken enough from our hertiage school.
Sincerly Desiree' A Wright-Davis
class of 1981

I hope you don't mind but I copied your post and sent it to some alumni groups. there is one on yahoo that you may want to check out. They have questions and suggestions.

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not sure if the button will show up. I also told the people on that group about this one

thank u for taking notice in our situation. you'll be glad to know that our students refused to attened class today until our voices were heard! after about 5 min, we was granted our meeting. in this meeting we disscused how black history has been over looked in this school. we were sucessful in moving multi- cultural week out of febuary next year. we also have 2 assemlbies planned for this month as well as being allowed to read off "this day in african american history facts" everyday.

"Please help us get in touch with Doronda. From what I'm hearing the kids are taking some unwarranted flack from some TPS employees at BTW."

Doronda, please email us, we would like to speak with you. We are alumni.

termayph@cox.net and Jzeiglerja@aol.com