Here are Two Little Words That Need to Be Reintroduced to Folks of Every Race: Home Training
By Gregory Kane

It isn’t about race; it’s about “home training.”

I suspect any black person over the age of 40 is familiar with the phrase “home training.” Or, to be more specific, “no home training.”

Black kids would say it all the time when I was growing up: Whenever somebody cut the fool, acted up or gave a display of inappropriate conduct, we’d look at that person, shake our heads and come to one conclusion.

“No home training,” we’d say.

Elizabeth Kandrac, a white teacher who taught at a predominantly black middle school in South Carolina several years ago, found out the hard way why a lot of American teachers of all races don’t want to teach in middle schools: Too many students who don’t seem to have any home training.

Kandrac has been in the news lately. A federal judge ruled that school officials in the Charleston County school district created a racially hostile work environment for her by not disciplining the black students who assaulted her, cursed her and called her racial epithets.

Conservative Web sites and bloggers had a field day with the news, of course. Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist, felt Kandrac’s saga was all about race.

“In a new twist in American race relations,’ Parker wrote, “a federal court has ruled that a white teacher in a predominantly African-American school was subjected to a racially hostile environment.” Oh, Parker didn’t stop there. She went on to make what has become a typical lament among white conservatives.

“If majority white students had used similar language toward black students,” Parker wrote, “the case would have been plastered on the front page of The New York Times until heads rolled.”

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