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Comedian mocks Wake schools' assignment controversy (NC)
WRAL ^ | 1/19/11 | Renee Chou

Posted on 01/19/2011 6:23:26 AM PST by AT7Saluki

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To: MrB
So...
is the premise that poor black kids are incapable of learning unless they are sitting next to a rich white kid “racist”?


Don't forget the premise that "black and white kids won't get along unless they attend the same school because children are incapable of learning 'tolerance' unless their environment is delicately controlled by social-minded educators." And then you've got the questions: Do the individual children with study problems do any better by being shipped to a school where achievement is higher, or are they just lost in the average to make the school system look better? If they're getting bussed forty and fifty minutes away from home, how much of a drop-off in parental involvement is seen in their education?
21 posted on 01/19/2011 8:31:17 AM PST by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Renderofveils
how much of a drop-off in parental involvement is seen in their education

Oh, this one is easy... zero.

22 posted on 01/19/2011 8:33:15 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: MrB
Oh, this one is easy... zero.

Touché.
23 posted on 01/19/2011 8:34:40 AM PST by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: aberaussie

I heard that in Charlotte the inner city schools get more than twice the amount of money than the white schools. Is that true?


24 posted on 01/19/2011 8:36:57 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: NCBraveheart

Tell me about it.

The fact that WRAL had this as their TOP story this morning got pissed off before I even got to the office.


25 posted on 01/19/2011 9:38:27 AM PST by Constitution Day
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got ME pissed off*


26 posted on 01/19/2011 9:38:50 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: AT7Saluki

Bussing for racial diversity was killed.

So they changed to name and continue the same policy.

The NAACP and libs demonstrate practically every school board meeting.

Now they are threatening to remove accreditation of all Wake Co. schools unless the board relents and approves bussing for racial diversity again.


27 posted on 01/19/2011 10:02:36 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: ladyjane

I have no idea - I haven’t lived there in over 30 years. It would not surprise me.


28 posted on 01/19/2011 10:51:11 AM PST by aberaussie
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To: albie

I had the same experience in PG County, MD as a child. My kids are in private school here in Wake County and I will eat rice and potatoes to keep them out of WCPS. My daughter is a junior this year, one more year and we are done. Really chaps my hide that I pay taxes for schools that I get no benefit from plus I pay private school tuition.


29 posted on 01/19/2011 3:56:10 PM PST by Calm_Cool_and_Elected
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To: Renderofveils
I asked someone who graduated from Leesville high about this. She told me that there are basically two tracks. One for college-bound students and one for the rest. There really isn't much interaction between the two groups except for lunchtime. So in reality, it is all an illusion anyway.

I really believe it is a way for the educational establishment to hide what is going on and then they can scream that they need more money "for the children" so they can insure their pensions and health benefits are fully funded.

30 posted on 01/19/2011 4:01:20 PM PST by Calm_Cool_and_Elected
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To: Calm_Cool_and_Elected
I asked someone who graduated from Leesville high about this. She told me that there are basically two tracks. One for college-bound students and one for the rest. There really isn't much interaction between the two groups except for lunchtime. So in reality, it is all an illusion anyway.

This is a fact. Students tell me one track is free play childcare complete with free lunch and the other consists of those that might want to consider college.

31 posted on 11/09/2011 3:14:17 PM PST by alrea
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To: AT7Saluki

And they wonder why “White Flight” occurs.


32 posted on 11/09/2011 3:18:50 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: IronJack
Hmmmmmm. “Rich” people buy homes in expensive areas of town, pay high property taxes to build schools, hire teachers. Poor people live in cheaper parts of city, pay lower property taxes. Yet people paying lower taxes get to send their kids to “rich” schools, while suckers paying exorbitant taxes are forced to send their kids to Penal Prep.

When was socialism ever fair? Hm? And...Remember, please. Government schooling is pure socialism. It is the very definition of a socialist welfare service.

33 posted on 11/09/2011 3:35:07 PM PST by wintertime (I am a Constitutional Restorationist!!! Yes!)
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