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Park Slope being shamed into radical school diversity plan
New York Post ^ | August 18, 2018 | Melkorka Licea and Susan Edelman

Posted on 08/19/2018 11:39:01 AM PDT by OddLane

The de Blasio administration is guilting parents in ultra-liberal Park Slope into swallowing a radical public school “diversity plan” — suggesting that those who disagree with the scheme are akin to white supremacists in the Deep South.

After a series of workshops and meetings over the summer, the city is poised to green-light a drastic revamping of District 15 middle-school admissions aimed at spurring racial and socioeconomic integration.

Parents say they support diversity, but some are afraid of being called bigoted if they question or criticize the plan — which would eliminate all admission criteria based on academic achievement and reserve 52 percent of seats for low-income, immigrant and homeless kids...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: deblasio; schools
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1 posted on 08/19/2018 11:39:01 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Oh, thought we were talking about a Korean for a sec.


2 posted on 08/19/2018 11:43:10 AM PDT by rktman (Enlis ted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: OddLane

White guilt results in the dissolution of white culture.


3 posted on 08/19/2018 11:47:40 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: OddLane

Very interesting. These liberal white parents are opposed to their ultra liberal mayor shoving this integration plan down their throats.

Very interesting. I wonder if his support will take a hit in the polls, and/or if parents will pull their kids out of school, which would defeat the entire purpose of the plan? I wonder how these liberal parents, who pride themselves on being liberal, like being compared to the whites in the old South who resisted integration? It’s enough to bruise a white liberal’s self esteem............


4 posted on 08/19/2018 11:47:59 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: OddLane
Parents say they support diversity, but some are afraid of being called bigoted if they question or criticize the plan — which would eliminate all admission criteria based on academic achievement and reserve 52 percent of seats for low-income, immigrant and homeless kids...

These are white liberals in Brooklyn getting what they voted for.

Good luck with that.

5 posted on 08/19/2018 11:50:05 AM PDT by FreeReign (Rudy: Sessions is recused from everything)
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To: OddLane

diversity = no admissions standards

You cannot raise people beyond their ability. So, the only way to achieve equality is to lower people of above minimum ability to the minimum.

Kurt Vonnegut anticipated this in “Harrison Bergeron.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfksZSOhYco


6 posted on 08/19/2018 11:51:15 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: OddLane

Kudos to the NYP for a good article. But don’t feel sorry for those residents — they need to start fighting back. Until they do, they are getting what they deserve.


7 posted on 08/19/2018 11:51:16 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: OddLane

In the meantime they will watch the quality of their schools plummet.


8 posted on 08/19/2018 11:53:14 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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To: OddLane

I’d yank my White kid out of that school faster than they could make the change.

Look, I’m not against some diversity, but the way they have described it here, they aren’t worried about former grades or the ability to pay.

That isn’t an effort to created diversity. It’s an effort to destroy the school.


9 posted on 08/19/2018 11:54:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: OddLane

Upper Left Side Libs love big government, social-engineering and De Blasio. So what’s the problem?


10 posted on 08/19/2018 11:58:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: OddLane

Sounds good to me. Ultra-liberal Park Slope will soon be complaining that their spoiled kids are getting beat up, harassed, robbed and raped.


11 posted on 08/19/2018 12:02:05 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media deliberately and intentionally chooses to lie, with full awareness and knowledge.)
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To: FreeReign

“Parents say they support diversity but...’’ Everything after but is bulls!t.


12 posted on 08/19/2018 12:09:39 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: jmacusa

These people voted for him, what did they expect? Applause?


13 posted on 08/19/2018 12:17:59 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: OddLane

People are too afraid of being called racist.


14 posted on 08/19/2018 12:19:29 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: DoughtyOne

Many, many moons ago (late ‘70s), NYC decided that instead of busing the black kids to schools in white neighborhoods, they would begin busing the white kids to schools in the black neighborhoods.

Well...they decided to start with my neighborhood, one of the wealthiest in NYC, and send us to a school that had a grand total of 3 other white kids in it.

Yeah, that didn’t work out so well for them. The families in our neighborhood promptly began pulling their kids out of the public schools and began sending them to Catholic and other private schools.

SO many families did that, that soon there weren’t enough kids to bus into the black neighborhood schools and they dropped the plan. Some parents put their kids back in the public system, but most did not.

I suspect something similar will happen here, but the White Guilt is MUCH stronger now than it was in the late 1970s, so I could be wrong.

Regards,


15 posted on 08/19/2018 12:29:15 PM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: OddLane

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of NIMBY liberals bwa ha ha!!!! No worries, they will pull their kids and and a new crop of private magnet schools will open. Business opportunity for anyone in the education field. In a few years, these public schools will be so diverse there wont be any white students.


16 posted on 08/19/2018 12:31:28 PM PDT by clarissaexplainsitall
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To: VermiciousKnid

Thanks for the mention of what took place back in the day.

I agree with your take on things. It would seem to me to be the obvious outcome, as mentioned earlier.

Diversity is not the be-all end-all of public perception.

My 1500 or so high school had one black guy. He was a great guy. Everyone liked him.

I have a decent healthy respect for Blacks. It didn’t take me being surrounded by them to develop that respect.


17 posted on 08/19/2018 12:33:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: OddLane
white supremacists in the Deep South

Say what??? Which 'deep south'? The entire 'deep south' was owned by Spain and France until early 1800s, and as soon as the US acquired these territories, the North started slave-dumping on the South.

The most racism that the US has ever seen has been from Yanks. From importing slaves to begin with to slave-dumping, to laws preventing blacks and southern whites post-Civil War to work and live freely in northern and western states, to abandoning the Southern "reconstruction" entirely to robber carpetbaggers after really flubbing things up. The slums built to isolate and warehouse blacks are in the north, not the south. Not that a first gen'er would bother to get to know these things, but get it straight, de Bluster-o

18 posted on 08/19/2018 12:34:26 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: OddLane

They get what the voted for. Embrace the suck!


19 posted on 08/19/2018 12:57:37 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: VermiciousKnid
You're lucky. The Archdiocese of Boston wouldn't take kids from families that weren't already enrolled in a Catholic school.

Did wonders for the perpetuating the Catholic tradition in Boston - not.

The archbishop at the time wanted to be cool, and get invited to all the liberal parties by support and sacrificing the offspring of his flock to the dumbing down and destruction of the public schools.

20 posted on 08/19/2018 1:05:50 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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