Guilford County Schools Superintendent Terry Grier is pushing for longer school days and a longer school year.

When board member Darlene Garrett inquired about the cost for expanding the school day, Grier applied his usual brand of logic:

“An even bigger question is what’s it costing us not to do that,” Grier re­sponded.
“What’s it costing us not to educate all of our children well?”

While the subject of improving academic perfomance was on the table, board member Deena Hayes weighed in with her unique point of view:

Hayes says the district’s academic goals have to take things like equity, race and histo­ry into consideration. She believes the curriculum is biased against minority students and that a number of teachers believe such students are “incapable” and “less than.”
“(The district) can’t do more if (edu­cators) don’t understand how they think about kids,” she said.

“Less than”………what?