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Judge tells Mississippi schools to stop segregating
Reuters.com ^ | 04/13/10 | Jeremy Pelofsky

Posted on 04/14/2010 2:29:07 PM PDT by jerry557

A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered a rural Mississippi school district to comply with a nearly 40-year-old order and halt long-disputed practices that led to racial segregation in its schools.

The Justice Department accused the Walthall County School District in Mississippi of annually permitting more than 300 students, most of them white, to transfer to a school outside of their residential area, shifting its racial makeup.

Further, administrators at three other schools grouped most of the white students into their own classrooms "resulting in significant numbers of segregated all-black classrooms at each grade level," the U.S. government said in a court filing.

The case comes in a state that was at the heart of the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s. In 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, an incident that helped prompt Congress to pass a law banning racial segregation in schools, work and public places.

The school district was ordered in 1970 to stop segregating its schools. But in the late 1980s officials were confronted by the Justice Department with concerns about student transfers to other schools that undermined the desegregation efforts.

While the district made some changes in the early 1990s, the Justice Department said the practices continued and the schools became "significantly more segregated." The district did not respond to the government's lawsuit seeking reforms.

In fact, the county school board in 2009 rejected a tentative settlement with the government that would have overhauled the district's transfer policy and prevented students being assigned to classrooms based on race.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Tom Lee, in Jackson, Mississippi, ordered the school district to significantly limit transfers. Lee also ordered the district to stop assigning students to classrooms that resulted in segregation, demanding that it use a software program to randomly assign them.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: judge; mississippi; schools; segregation
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To: Graybeard58

It’s not just the military. Blacks and whites voluntarily segregate themselves where I work. Most of us have been working side-by-side for decades but at lunch the blacks sit together and the whites sit together. We are all friends but when we are on our time, most of us sit with our own kind, with few exceptions. It just happens and nobody cares.


21 posted on 04/14/2010 3:49:21 PM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: Thud

“MSM reporting of anything legal is so bad it is hard to figure out what is really going on, but this point is telling:”

How true! And your post clued me into the rest of what I find puzzling about this article. It all depends on if the state allows school transfers. And this is a major point which the article does not mention.

The state I reside in does not allow school transfers out of your residential district. However, a neighboring state does. All that is required is for a parent to request a transfer to a different district and the request is granted.

Thank you for your post so I could see what I am missing:)


22 posted on 04/14/2010 4:11:25 PM PDT by southernsunshine
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To: jerry557

In a way they are saying a black kid can’t learn unless a white kid is sitting next to them.


23 posted on 04/14/2010 4:11:36 PM PDT by timeflies
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To: Graybeard58

I read the same aritcle(s), Graybeard. Can’t remember what state it’s in. Seems to me that PC is waaaaay out of control and is destroying everything in it’s path.


24 posted on 04/14/2010 4:15:30 PM PDT by southernsunshine
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To: TexasFreeper2009
What about black universities... black caucus... black law enforcement organizations etc. I am sick of this separation thing with blacks... either you are an American or get the hell out now!

LLS

25 posted on 04/14/2010 4:36:55 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: jerry557

Many well-informed blacks, particularly in the south, who want to improve their kids college possibilities, send their kids to private all black intermediate and high schools, where the parents know they will not be coddled and will be expected to perform. Overwhelming majorities of students from those private “segregated” schools go on to college.

And why not; most “public schools” epitomize “lowered” expectations so everyone feels they “passed”.

The biggest form of racism is the Liberal belief that “desegregation in education” automatically equals “quality of education”. It’s racist because it tells a black child their education is “better” just because they sit next to w white child. It was always a lie.

Does that mean that segregation is intrinsically good, intrinsically a moral good? No.

But it does mean that “desegregation”, as a policy sledge-hammer, a blind social engineering policy in all venues at all times, remains a policy divorced from its own negative unforeseen consequences.

1994: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n23_v86/ai_15869565/

1998: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-493628841.html

2004: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/education/19education.html?pagewanted=1

and after high school

http://www.blackcollegesearch.com/schools.htm

But, what’s to complain about, concerning tho url-links above, since we really believe in Life, LIBERTY and the Pursuit of Happiness above all else?

and for further reading

“The Education of Minority Children” by Thomas Sowell

at: http://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html


26 posted on 04/14/2010 5:19:29 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Why is this only an issue with schools?

The courts decided to institute a law by fiat that every child in the country legally or illegally has a right to a publicly financed education. It is a means for the state to attempt to control the inhabitants by overseeing mandatory education centers. The result of this most recent ruling is likely to be more "white flight" from failing black majority neighborhoods or home schooling for those too poor or stubborn to flee.

27 posted on 04/14/2010 7:49:13 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began,)
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To: jerry557

they’s miscegenatin’!!


28 posted on 04/14/2010 7:50:45 PM PDT by mo
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To: jerry557

Better to homeschool. The public schools are in bad shape now, and even some private schools. Kids gone wild.


29 posted on 04/14/2010 11:58:07 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: Thud

From my reading, it seems that the students are requesting a transfer out of the district and the district is granting them. They may have had the policy that they would grant transfers as long as students were willing to commute.

It must be a terrible district and the exodus is just too much to ignore. 300 students out of the district would have been 10% of the district where I went to school.


30 posted on 04/15/2010 12:10:40 AM PDT by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for, it matters who takes office.)
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To: Thud

I have no issue with this. This is no different from forced integration.


31 posted on 04/15/2010 12:15:04 AM PDT by BenKenobi ("we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be")
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To: trumandogz

BWHAHAHA!


32 posted on 04/15/2010 12:58:58 AM PDT by Daffynition ( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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To: jerry557
Sheff vs O'Neill
33 posted on 04/15/2010 1:05:53 AM PDT by Daffynition ( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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To: AmishDude

There are many potentially critical facts, which is why legal reporting is so difficult.


34 posted on 04/15/2010 8:12:09 AM PDT by Thud
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