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...
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Oh, thought we were talking about a Korean for a sec.
White guilt results in the dissolution of white culture.
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............
These are white liberals in Brooklyn getting what they voted for.
Good luck with that.
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
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.
In the meantime they will watch the quality of their schools plummet.
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.
Upper Left Side Libs love big government, social-engineering and De Blasio. So what’s the problem?
Sounds good to me. Ultra-liberal Park Slope will soon be complaining that their spoiled kids are getting beat up, harassed, robbed and raped.
“Parents say they support diversity but...’’ Everything after but is bulls!t.
These people voted for him, what did they expect? Applause?
People are too afraid of being called racist.
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,
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.
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.
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
They get what the voted for. Embrace the suck!
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.
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