Letters: As a white teacher, i'm not good enough?

This article is written by a school teacher who disagrees with a previous article about how teachers of the same ethnicity as the students "bring "something special" to the classroom." The teacher is upset when he read about the need for teachers of minority because he believes that "students pay attention and learn if you stimulate their intellect, not because you share an ethnic background with them." I found this article interesting because I didn't really give this issue much thought. Now that the school teacher mentioned it, I wonder whether having teacher of the same race would affect my learning. But in the end, I agree that the teacher's attitude matters more than his/her ethnicity.

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/43264342.html