Concordia Parish schools still operate under such a court order. When the restrictions were implemented, the court felt the only way to quickly turn the tide of racial discrimination was to do so with force. This week members of the NAACP in Ferriday have cried foul, claiming that administrative changes were motivated by race, not performance. Calls of a boycott were heard and the future peace and prosperity of Ferriday&8217;s school system lies in the balance of what happens next. We urge the parents of the district to use caution before blindly following someone who seeks to disrupt things with cries of racism without first seeing evidence confirming that such a problem actually exists. Calling out someone for race is an easy way to attract attention, regardless of whether the accusations have merit. It&8217;s easy for someone, particularly someone simply looking to gain public attention, to fuss and yell and get a crowd fired up, but not as easy sometimes to see the bigger picture. Let&8217;s look at the track records of the schools in question and the administrators in question and see what&8217;s really going happening.

We suspect most Ferriday parents are more concerned with the quality of education their children receive than the skin color of the people leading that education.