I think it's far more important to focus on what these potential drop out kids are doing during the hours they're NOT in school rather than take these somewhat unconstitutional steps backwards, trampling all over important gains the civil rights movement has made and is still continuing to make over the years. This makes me shudder. It’s really a multi-faceted problem, starting with parents who don’t care, are too busy to parent, may not be ‘fit’ to parent in the first place. Coupled with environment/geographical issues of being inner-city kids, heightened crime levels, etc. Then throw on for icing teachers belonging to a school board who are underpaid, undervalued, with not even 10% of the resources they need to actually make a difference… without having to devote their lives and their money to the cause for free. I think it apathetic and appalling of the school board to come up with such a half hazard plan to think that segregation, or racially focused study is the key to ending their problems. I find it infuriating that our provincial government would accept this and that municipalities aren’t able to step up, interject and come together to create the kind of after school programs, sports leagues and social groups that are geared towards differing demographics-- something to provide some kind of stability in these kids lives, to show them the difference between right and wrong. To be the parents when the parents aren’t there. I *almost* think it’s funny that we think changing curriculum is going to make an ounce of difference. Another f’ing bandaid is what this is and it’s a seriously shitty one at that.