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To: CarryingOn
For years, Connerly has invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for people to be judged by the "content of their character" rather than the color of the skin. But wishing for a colorblind society does not make it so.

While that may be true, implenting policy that is not blind to race, irrespective of which group it favors, is no better a tribute to MLK and the civil rights groups than George Wallace's "Segregation yesterday, segregation today, segregation forever!"

The best policy is that a public school serves all of the students (U.S. citizens and eligible legally present foreign citizens) in a defined geographic area. Give each high school (or middle or elementary school) the same amount of money in the budget and the same set of standards, and let them do their thing. This should all be decided and funded at the local (county or city) level.

That's real equal opportunity: give them the same level of facilities, the same amount of budget money, and the same set of academic standards, enforced by the numbers.

But of course, the race-baiters don't really want equal opportunity; they just want more money to push their godless, Marxist, anti-America, anti-white man agenda.

33 posted on 06/29/2007 2:27:59 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * wahoo wa! ... U.Va. Engineering '09)
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To: rabscuttle385; CarryingOn

Last word, to go with my post: this should be coupled with a school voucher program, where the parents or legal guardians of an eligible student can pack up and take the student’s allocated funds to another school, if they are unhappy with the school that serves their geographic area.


36 posted on 06/29/2007 2:29:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * wahoo wa! ... U.Va. Engineering '09)
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