"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..."
Assigning white and black students to different classes in the same school might be the result of objective sorting by ability, but transfer of most white students to other districts, or vice versa, looks mighty like intentional segregation by race.
The district's position, if ability is the justification for transferring most white students out, has to be that its instructional abilities are so low that it can't educate the better students. Somehow I doubt that.
“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:)
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.
I have no issue with this. This is no different from forced integration.