I think it is incumbent upon reasonable people to understand it is natural for people with the same affinities and cultural background to stick together to a large degree while having the freedom to associate with whomever they choose without suffering negative social or legal repercussions. If anything, the author seems to long for common sense.
Yes, but a trip down that road has the potential to go quite badly. Can you imagine what could happen if we educate the country’s children according to skin color and/or parent’s heritage? Mexican schools, Somalian schools, black schools, white schools...it’s pretty easy to paint someone with a different skin color as the enemy and pure evil if from as a child on, you never have contact with one. In Minnesota’s history there was tremendous animosity between the Norwegian immigrants an the German immigrants, it was the kids getting to know each other in school that overcame it as the churches were all separate.
I don’t believe in bussing to force integration nor do I think public schools are a good option, ever. But as long as public schools are the way a majority of our kids are educated they should be assigned based on proximity to the student’s home not skin color.
With whomever mutually agrees.