'Black flight' changing the makeup of Dallas schools

The Dallas Morning News ^ | June 6, 2010 | HOLLY K. HACKER and TAWNELL D. HOBBS

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First of two parts

Every morning Vivian King drives her granddaughter past her neighborhood Dallas ISD school on the five-mile route to her charter school.

Both are "recognized" public schools, but King believes the A.W. Brown-Fellowship Leadership Academy offers her granddaughter, 6-year-old Vivica Griffin, a better education.

"We didn't want her to go to the schools around here," King said.

King's decision makes her part of a historic shift in Dallas ISD: The number of black children attending DISD schools has reached its lowest point since 1965.

The movement mirrors, on a smaller scale, massive white flight from the district in the 1970s.

Black students formed a majority in Dallas schools through the 1980s and '90s. Over the last 10 years, though, the number of black children has fallen by nearly 20,000, or about a third. Meanwhile, Hispanic children have filled their seats as the district's overall enrollment remains fairly flat at about 157,000.

Today, about 41,000 black students attend DISD schools. They make up 26 percent of the district compared with 106,000 Hispanic children, or 68 percent. White students are 5 percent of the district.

The trend seen in Dallas schools is part of a larger national move away from inner cities for many black families, but the plunge is steeper in Dallas ISD than other urban districts in Texas and is among the biggest declines nationally.

Interviews with dozens of parents reveal that the exodus is not fueled by a single reason, but by myriad forces including issues of race, class, perceptions of problems within DISD, an explosion of charter schools and the quest for the American dream in the suburbs.

Adelfa Callejo, a Latina civil rights activist, said it's like history repeating itself.

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Many black parents are concerned about the attention and money spent bringing native Spanish-speakers up to speed. Some say their children are ignored. "Nothing is geared towards us; it's all geared towards the Hispanics," said Shirley Daniels, spokeswoman for the Black Coalition to Maximize Education, a civil rights group and plaintiff in DISD's federal desegregation case, which lasted from 1970 to 2003.

Well, my dear little Democrat, that's what you get when your rival victims out-victim you.

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what are they going to do when the conflict becomes brown vs black?

Make more popcorn?

[TxAg1981]

PERFECT!

The Blacks were angry that the Hispanics were sort of "riding on their coattails".
With the whites gone from the schools and the positions of authority, neither group could blame them for any lack of progress or poor scores

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Bayou La Batre Imposes Ban On Sagging Pants

From "A Father's 10 Rules for Dating His Daughter"

Rule Three:

I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise:
You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

[Stentor]

LOL.

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This one made me laugh the hardest. You don't know how many times I gave thanks that my only child was a male. His mother died when he was six and I raised him. (He is FReeper 'Charge Carrier', PhD physics)

Rule Ten:

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car -- there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine.

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[A Father's 10 Rules for dating his daughter]

You don't know how many times I gave thanks that my only child was a male.

AMEN. I had two boys and would not have survived a daughter. We had a 21-year-old Pakistani girl come stay with us for a month (friend of a guy I met in Kuwait). My wife was in hysterics over the way I mother-henned that kid. I was a total wreck by time she left. I still feel that way over my grand-niece.

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The Balkanization of the formerly United States continues apace. The real irony is that the White folks will be the ones to come out just fine in whatever section of the country they end up inhabiting along with the Asians probably. Once again the real victims of the Libtards will be Blacks and Hispanics who will be relegated to the Third World hell holes created by Liberalism and doomed before birth to be places of abject misery. Really, you just can’t make this stuff up. Only the Liberal mind can be this twisted and bereft of any hint of contact with reality.