In another article today we learn that the Lawrence, MA, public schools (a santuary city for illegal aliens) has mandated color-coded uniforms to better inform teachers and administrators who the most violent and most stupid students are. Ah, Liberalism!
Thanks for posting this, I read this article in the Sunday Globe. This line is a killer:
“If we go out any farther than that, we might as well go to Ohio.”
They get what they deserve.
Do any of the schools use brown shirts in their uniforms yet?
CNN was talking about tax cuts!
The real "war on the middle class" is represented by school busing.
CNN was talking about tax cuts!
The real "war on the middle class" is represented by school busing.
Good. MA and its socialism deserves to die a trickling, slow death . . .
Romney was the MA Governor. I guess he didn’t do enough to change things. Let’s make him President so he won’t do enough to change things on a national level as well.
Ah yes, from the Boston folk who brought you moral outrage over the South!
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/iml04/soc/ush/civil/boston/index.html
...On June 21, 1974, Massachusetts Federal Court Judge Arthur Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee “intentionally brought about and maintained racial segregation.” His ruling was based on school committee records that documented ongoing resistance to desegregating schools when the school committee alone had the power to decide who went to any given school. In the two years leading up to the ruling, protests and demonstrations revealed white resistance and racial tension in a city that had long considered race a southern issue.
Garrity ordered the desegregation of the schools by the following September. His ruling meant that thousands of white students would be bused to schools in black communities, and black students would be bused to white schools, some in hostile communities such as South Boston and Charlestown.
When school began in September 1974, most schools quietly complied with the new plan. But in South Boston, buses carrying black children were greeted by angry, violent mobs that threw rocks through the windows. Nine young black students were injured. Roxbury community center leader Ellen Jackson remembers, “The kids were crying. They had glass in their hair. They were scared... they wanted to go home.
Black parents organized escorts to see their children to school safely. The following year, the busing plan was revised. But the violence against Boston’s black community continued, particularly in Charlestown and South Boston. Many white families boycotted the schools.
Boston’s busing plan continued indefinitely. Eventually, the violence subsided as some white families complied, while others enrolled their children in private schools or moved out of the city altogether into predominantly white suburbs...
This is a surprise only to “progressives” and other fools allowed to “run” our country (into the ground)...
“If we go out any farther than that, we might as well go to Ohio.”
As a Massachusetts suburbanite, all I can say is ‘Ohio’ is infinitely better than any variety of urban h*ll - and that includes Brookline.
SSDD.
When I was growing up in South Lawrence I attended what was then the Breen School. All the teachers were Irish Catholic spinsters and their calling was to teach. They did it as if their students lives depended on it and they disciplined us as if our lives depended on it. The principal and our parents stood behind them; you had no choice but to learn and be courteous.
Boston ranks sixth from the bottom of the hundred largest American cities in its percentage of children, with just 19.8 percent of its population under 18 in 2000, down more than 10 percent from its high point of 31.9 percent in 1970. While accurate population figures since 2000 are unavailable, school enrollment in Boston has fallen 6 percent in that time, from 84,720 to 80,161. That outpaces a decline in the birthrate, suggesting families are continuing to move away. Unlike in previous decades, now the exodus is often not by choice...The Boston Foundation, in which about half of Boston parents said they were "somewhat or very likely" to leave in the next five years, despite the fact that two-thirds of those surveyed had lived in the city a decade or more. Ask any young urban parent, and you'll get an earful on why: skyrocketing housing prices, lackluster city schools, and a rising rate of violence.
This is our future run by the liberal and wealthy elites who are breeding themselves out of existence. They are living in a bubble.
Boston's failure is thus purely a matter of policy and cannot be blamed on demographics or income.
The same thing has been happening in Cleveland, which was also saddled with forced busing in the 1970s. In the 1950s, Cleveland’s population was 900,000. Now it is is 485,000 and falling. There were 150,000 students in the Cleveland public schools before the desegregation order went into effect. Now there are 58,000 students. People can’t leave Cleveland fast enough. The schools are bad, the neighborhoods are dangerous, and city services are lousy.
Cleveland and Boston are two good examples of the unintended consequences of judicial activism.
People of different races can live together in peace provided they share the same culture. White bourgeois culture and black ghetto culture cannot co-exist; in time, the brutality and anti-intellectualism of black ghetto culture will poison and destroy whatever community hosts it. The same goes for other “trash” cultures (white trash/meth lab, travellers, hispanic borrachos, etc.)
As long as we as a society refuse to face these facts, our racial problems in this country will never be solved.
“With Brookline, at least we could keep the same kind of lifestyle,” he explains. “If we go out any farther than that, we might as well go to Ohio.”
No, Hon Walter Rice, US District Court Judge in Dayton Ohio, took control of our school system here before Boston was even thinking about forced busing and destroyed our schools and our charming inner city neighborhoods. So go somewhere else, because you won’t escape the problem in Ohio.
There have been a number of changes in Boston in the last couple of years, particularly in regards to affirmative action and the police and fire. The thing with Boston is, if you are from there, you really don’t want to leave.
I did, it was tough, but I’m glad.
It’s a well known scientific principle that a black kid simply cannot learn unless seated next to a white kid.
Down here in Georgia, the schools are bussing kids 60 miles and more each school day.
Bill Cosby, call your office.
And the libs wonder where the oil is going...
The growing disparity between public schools, however, led to a controversial decision in 1974 to bus children of different races to schools outside their neighborhoods. Angered by the breakup of communities, many white parents enrolled their children in parochial schools instead or pulled up stakes and moved away from the city, leaving a disproportionately poor population of children of color. Ironically, then, busing created a less-equal situation than the one it was intended to replace.
And boy, those new Lawrence high school polos look dorky.