Supreme Court revists school integration case (1 Viewer)

[danarhea]

This could be the death knell of forced integration, which I have felt is pretty onerous, and it will be a very interesting case to follow. There are better ways to achieve integration other than forced busing, which in my opinion, is also unconstitutional.

Article is here.

 

[Synch]

ABC gives an indepth looks into the lawsuit currently filed over integration policies.

When Crystal Meredith moved to Louisville, Ky., and tried to enroll her 5-year-old son in kindergarten a couple blocks from their house, officials pointed her elsewhere, to a school that was a 90-minute bus ride away.

A school that was closer to their home, officials told her, couldn't accept another white student like Joshua that year.

Meredith, a single mother, wasn't looking for a fight. After driving Joshua across town to school every day, she decided she'd bypassed the closer school long enough.
She sued and is now at the center of the most significant legal battle over race to reach the Supreme Court in years.

"Joshua was denied entrance to a school for no other reason than racial classification," said Teddy Gordon, Meredith's attorney. "There was room at the school. There were plenty of empty seats. This was a racial quota."
Meredith and other parents who sued the Louisville school district argue that the racial assignment plans amount to unconstitutional race discrimination.
The school district contends that it's not discriminating against anyone, but instead is trying to maintain racially balanced and integrated schools for the benefit of all.

This sounds eerily familiar.

 

[Navy Seal Patriot]

Forced integration or forced segregration; I cannot see any difference.

 

[Stinger]

Forced integration or forced segregration; I cannot see any difference.

I was a student during the racial upheavals and on top of that in AL. I was also the VP of the local Teen-Age Republicans. Most forget, or have been convinced otherwise by Dems, that Republicans stood up for desegreataion and civil rights.

My how times have changed as noted on the WSJ OpininionJournal website

[FONT=Verdana, Times][FONT=Verdana, Times]"In any case, it has always been presented as only a temporary measure--a way, as Justice Blackmun put it, "to get beyond racism." Yet affirmative action's advocates act as if it is here to stay. For them, discrimination is no longer a means to an end but an end in itself. The Seattle Public Schools Web site has a statement on its Web site that expressly disavows the goal of getting beyond racism:[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Times][FONT=Verdana, Times] [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Times][FONT=Verdana, Times]The intended purpose of our work in the area of race and social justice is to bring communities together through open dialogue and honest reflection around what is meant by racism and the impact is [sic] has on our society, and more specifically, our students. Our intention is not to put up additional barriers or develop an "us against them" mindset; nor is it to continue to hold onto unsuccessful concepts such as a melting pot or colorblind mentality. [/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana, Times][FONT=Verdana, Times]As George Will notes, this statement replaced one that was much worse:[/FONT][/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Times][FONT=Verdana, Times] [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Times][FONT=Verdana, Times]Until June, the school district's Web site declared that "cultural racism'' includes "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology,'' "having a future time orientation'' (planning ahead) and "defining one form of English as standard.'' The site also asserted that only whites can be racists, and disparaged assimilation as the "giving up'' of one's culture."[/FONT][/FONT]
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[WI Crippler]

The whole thing is bullshit. You go to the school you live closest to, or whatever district you may live in. You don't go to school an hour away because there are too many other white kids, or black kids in a school. Waste of time, and money.

 

[southern_liberal]

This could be the death knell of forced integration, which I have felt is pretty onerous, and it will be a very interesting case to follow. There are better ways to achieve integration other than forced busing, which in my opinion, is also unconstitutional.

Article is here.

How do you think intergration can be achieved without busing?

 

[danarhea]

How do you think intergration can be achieved without busing?

I'm glad you asked. Houston achieved integration through its Magnet School Program, in which its best schools, which are equivalent of Honors' programs (School of Communication, School of Music, etc.) were built in black areas instead of white areas. If white parents wanted to give their children top notch honors' program style educations without sending them to private schools, they sent their kids there. It has worked quite well. And, of course, participation is completely voluntary.

 

[southern_liberal]

I'm glad you asked. Houston achieved integration through its Magnet School Program, in which its best schools, which are equivalent of Honors' programs (School of Communication, School of Music, etc.) were built in black areas instead of white areas. If white parents wanted to give their children top notch honors' program style educations without sending them to private schools, they sent their kids there. It has worked quite well.

I'm glad you responded. I live in Charlotte, N.C. The whole busing issue came from my school system in '69. I can tell you, nearly 40 years later with magnet schools, school choice (with transportation provided,) county wide open enrollment (if you can provide your own transportation) and building schools along the city boarder with the suburbs, our schools are still re segregating.

unlike '69, there are far more intergrated areas of the county, so our school systems problem is probably more class segregation than race, but there is still a racial element to the issue that can't be ignored. So our school system implemented noble programs to try and stop the re segregation, but they do not go far enough for those who feel a well rounded education means dealing with people not from your racial/ethnic/socio-economic background to better prepare you to deal with a pluralistic society.

Don't get me wrong, magnet schools are of great value (the system began it's magnet program the year after I graduated:doh ), But they only go so far with intergration.

 

[Stinger]

Don't get me wrong, magnet schools are of great value (the system began it's magnet program the year after I graduated:doh ), But they only go so far with intergration.

Magnet schools were also a part of the desegration settle in the town were I live. After a few years there began to be several of the then former magnet school teachers going public. They were being fired because there were not enought students applying to attend the school board said. But then many white parents spoke up about being on waiting list and beggin to get thier children in. Then the school board admitted it was a problem with not enough black students applying and therefore the ratio of black to white was getting out of the court mandated ratio so they had no choice but to deny white children the advance education and had to fire teacher to consolidate schools.

That's how far it's gone.

 

[danarhea]

Magnet schools were also a part of the desegration settle in the town were I live. After a few years there began to be several of the then former magnet school teachers going public. They were being fired because there were not enought students applying to attend the school board said. But then many white parents spoke up about being on waiting list and beggin to get thier children in. Then the school board admitted it was a problem with not enough black students applying and therefore the ratio of black to white was getting out of the court mandated ratio so they had no choice but to deny white children the advance education and had to fire teacher to consolidate schools.

That's how far it's gone.

Nothing like that happened in Houston. Here, it has gone pretty smoothly.