Many white teachers don't want to come to an area like this.

Yet, he said, competent white teachers do not apply to his school.

The court fight was between the white teacher and the school board.

But how could tutoring them change the attitudes of white teachers and parents?

"That same day a white teacher paddled her daughter in another class and she didn't do anything," he said.

A white teacher said she was concerned that much black anger seemed to come from two myths.

Issues included class size, school boundaries, and how white teachers treated black students.

If the children fail, they say, it is because their white teachers expect no more than failure from them.

In 1992, white teachers taught about 93 percent of 12th grade science and math students.

The white teacher would not have done the same to a white student, she said.