Posted on 06/25/2007 6:09:24 AM PDT by Zender500
The Inter- District Downtown School in Minneapolis and the FAIR School in Crystal opened their doors with much fanfare in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Their sponsor is the West Metro Education Program, a consortium of the Minneapolis school district and 10 suburban districts. WMEP created the schools at a cost of more than $26 million to be showcases of racial balance, achieved voluntarily. Last week, we learned that they are no such thing.
Today, InterDistrict students are 70 percent minority' and the FAIR School is nearly 70 percent white. Their racial composition is little different from that of the districts in which they are located. The InterDistrict School actually qualifies as "racially isolated" under state desegregation rules.
The pattern is similar in the East Metro Integration District, which includes St. Paul and nine suburban districts.
The phenomenon seems to be nationwide, according to Will Antell, a former state desegregation official.
"When you try to set up integrated programs, the black kids come back into more of a segregated school and the white kids leave it," he told the Star Tribune. The students seek, he said, to be "with young people like themselves."
This revelation will disappoint you if you think that getting a good education requires sitting next to someone whose skin color is different than yours. But while many social planners (including judges) seem to view education this way, most ordinary folks don't.
The West Metro schools represent the last gasp of a social engineering vision that has transformed cities and undermined education across the country. The two schools' failure to achieve their race-based objective should prompt us to reflect on what that vision wrought.
Large-scale mandatory busing for racial balance began in Minneapolis in the a "desegregation"
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Golly! Imagine that! Thats just gotta be against the law...
Imagine that.
Young Black males have destroyed the public school system in large areas of the US. It's no longer safe to be in many public schools. Most parents recognize this and are turning more and more to private schools.
It didn’t work in Dallas back in the 70’s, it isn’t going to work now.
But we all feel warmer and fuzzier. That’s got to be worth a few hundred billion dollars, don’t ya think?
Monday, June 04, 2007
DOES THE principal of Murphy High really believe there isn't gang activity at his school -- despite the recent videotaped beating of a teacher?
That's what principal Doug Estle told the Press-Register after two students waylaid a 61-year-old teacher, Melinda Rudesill, and videotaped the attack with a cell phone camera. The principal insisted that Murphy High doesn't have a gang problem.
His insistence notwithstanding, police and prosecutors contend the attack was a gang initiation rite. Evidence includes the manner in which the attack took place, the fact that it was videotaped, and the fact that gang symbols appeared around the prime suspect's house shortly after the attack.
Given that high schools across America suffer from gang problems, and given that with an enrollment of about 2,400 students Murphy is Alabama's largest high school, it's unlikely that Murphy is immune to gangs.
The district attorney's office appears to be handling the attack with the seriousness it deserves. Prosecutors say Randolph Parker, 16, slugged Ms. Rudesill as she was exiting her classroom while Dominick Harris, 17, videotaped the encounter. Ms. Rudesill was knocked to the floor and required more than 20 stitches.
Because of the viciousness of the attack and the videotaping of it, prosecutors were right to charge the young men as adults. If convicted, they could get up to 10 years in prison.
If they committed this heinous crime, their treatment by the court system should send a strong message to other gangster-wannabes that violence against teachers and other innocent people won't be tolerated.
(Get your kids out of the hell-hole public schools)
Hartford area schools were ordered by the court (Sheff vs. O’Neill), in 1996, to integrate the black inner-city schools with the white suburban schools by 2007.
Its been 11 years. This unenforcable court order has not been acted on. Inner city kids don’t want to go to the suburbs and suburban kids don’t want to go to the inner city.
I’ve had 28 child-years of school since this thing was issued, and there was only one Hartford kid in all of it. I helped out with a field trip in the class he was in, and he was a real discipline problem...he just didn’t WANT to integrate...even with the black suburban kids (who were attentive).
Try to racially balance with my kids and you’ll be facing a shotgun.
Just another reason why my children will never attend a public school.
If you child attends a public school, they are effectively “A WARD OF THE STATE” for 6-8 hours a day.
It amazes me how people will not trust the government with their health care, but will smile and wave as they send their children off to be indoctrinated by government employees 5 days a week.
Public school is not what it was in the 1950s, hell even the 1970s.
Call the social engineers of Montgomery County Maryland! They know how to tell people what is GOOD for their kids and schools! sarc
I’ve got the solution! I don’t know why it never occurred to me before. All that needs to be done is have the government relocate everyone on the basis of race, so that all neighborhoods are racially balanced. Oh sure it may mean that some people will have to be moved from the outer suburbs to the inner city, but it’s worth it for the sake of diversity.
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