Minorities might perceive some districts don't want them, and they wouldn't be wrong. Maureen Robinson, a teacher from Pennsauken, said she believed prejudice had barred her from working in several Gloucester County schools. She said colleagues from those districts had told her that she had not been hired solely because she is black. Districts need to reexamine their hiring practices, she added. Someday, that hill under there is going to get big enough and someone will stumble over it and break their neck.
Students say they also see the strains of race relations in school.
He said that last year he had watched as a teacher swore, muttered a racial slur, and chased a black student who had rapped on the class window to attract a friend's attention. Corsey was released after posting bail in mid-April, and a grand jury hearing has yet to be scheduled. After the stabbing, Deptford High School took hundreds of students to see the film Remember the Titans in an attempt to promote racial harmony. Deptford has hired more minority teachers and administrators than any other county school, state statistics showed. Yet recruitment, Moyer said, is the hardest task.