Education
At the Little Theatre in Rochester, teachers, superintendents, parents and school board members discussed ways to bring more diversity to local teaching staffs. On Friday, WXXI hosted a community discussion to wrap up our week of reporting on teacher diversity. Evan Dawson reports. Brandon White is a teacher in the Rochester City School District – He said that for too many students of color, there are not enough mentors who look like them, and school is not a positive experience. “There was one thing that was said about getting more RCSD kids to be RCSD teachers, and why they wouldn’t want to be, and I returned with the question, ‘Why would the convict want to be the correctional officer?’” Simeon Bannister is a parent and board member in the Rush-Henrietta district; he said that teacher diversity will only get addressed when the community views it as a problem for everyone. “If all of a sudden, graduation rates dipped below 50 percent across the county, particularly outside the city,