Parents upset about ethnic classification in school handbook
Parents are complaining that some paperwork handed out to public school students is in bad form. Students need to select their ethnic background from a list for statistical purposes, and some changes to the wording in the choices are raising eyebrows.Barbara Holgate is one of the angry parents complaining. “This is a Broward County School book of code and conducts. I have a problem with the ethnic background information that they’re requesting,” she said.
“When it comes to, especially for the black Americans, they’re calling them Haitians or Negroes. I do have a problem with that.”
Victoria Berg wonders why there are so many new words and subcategories. “Why are they singling out Haitians? Why don’t they have the Bahamians? Why don’t they have Cubans? Why don’t they have Martiniqueans? There are so many different Islands ethnicities. They’ve literally just singled out Haitians and Negro, and Negro, to the black community, is not a nice word.”
