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Segregation is making a comeback in U.S. schools.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCHOOL_SEGREGATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-05-15-03-35-17 ^

Posted on 05/15/2014 4:55:51 AM PDT by MNDude

In New York, California and Texas, more than half of Latino students are enrolled in schools that are 90 percent minority or more, the report found. In New York, Illinois, Maryland and Michigan, more than half of black students attend schools where 90 percent or more are minority.

Project co-director Gary Orfield, author of the "Brown at 60" report, said the changes are troubling because they show some minority students receive poorer educations than white students and Asian students, who tend to be in middle-class schools. The report urged, among other things, deeper research into housing segregation, which is a "fundamental cause of separate-and-unequal schooling."

Although segregation is more prevalent in central cities of the largest metropolitan areas, it's also in the suburbs. "Neighborhood schools, when we go back to them, as we have, produce middle-class schools for whites and Asians and segregated high-poverty schools for blacks and Latinos," Orfield said.

Housing discrimination - stopping or discouraging minorities from moving to majority-white areas - also plays a role in school segregation and "that's been a harder nut to crack," said Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which argued the Brown case in front of the Supreme Court.

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To: MNDude

I never went to school with a “person of color” from kindergarten straight through college.

I don’t think I missed a damn thing. Correct me if I’m wrong.


21 posted on 05/15/2014 5:41:42 AM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: MNDude

Well Mr Orfield what is your answer?
Should the Government force blacks or latinos to move from the enclaves in which they CHOOSE to live? Should their children be forcibly bused out of those areas to “white schools”?
Blacks tend to want to live in Democrat controlled areas. These happen often to be inner city areas.Will we now force people to live where they chose not to live?


22 posted on 05/15/2014 5:43:35 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American - Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: MNDude
The report urged, among other things, deeper research into housing segregation, which is a "fundamental cause of separate-and-unequal schooling."

UN Agenda 21 has the answer. Abolish private property, conduct a campaign of rural cleansing in the name of returning the land to its "natural state," and force all the white racists into government high-rise containment facilities on both coasts.

The government will decide where you live and what you do for a living. It's the only way to check "white privilege." And if that doesn't work, maybe concentration camps will teach them their proper place.

23 posted on 05/15/2014 5:50:16 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: MNDude

“...more than half of black students attend schools where 90 percent or more are minority. “

Uh...doesn’t that make them the majority? They’re not a minority if they’re in the majority.


24 posted on 05/15/2014 5:56:33 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Soul of the South

I love this idea. New York city is a good place to start. How can we implement it. Maybe ex mayor Bloomerburg will be the first to move.


25 posted on 05/15/2014 5:59:05 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (')
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To: MNDude

At the same time, there’s been a demographic change in public schools. Between 1968 and 2011, the number of Hispanic students in the public school system rose 495 percent, while the number of black students increased by 19 percent and the number of white students dropped 28 percent, according to the Education Department.


26 posted on 05/15/2014 6:03:53 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: DaveA37
I was in grade school when the schools were forcibly desegregated. It lasted for about 4 years, then the white teachers didn't want to discipline black students out of fear of being branded "racist", Black teachers and administrators were wont to discipline white students for fear of backlash, and discipline was lost. Race riots followed.

A black male teacher can discipline black students and no allegations of racism will be made.

A white teacher can discipline white students, and, again, no allegations of racism can be made.

One of the greatest stumbling blocks to maintaining order, and by doing so an environment conducive to learning, is removed.

No more "Check your privilege" BS, just compete. Do well--or not, but you can't blame anyone else--whoever you are.

Maybe it is time to take a step back to the days when the blacks I knew were emphatic that a good education was the key to success, before all the Liberals derailed that train and built the Welfare Plantation.

27 posted on 05/15/2014 6:06:52 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: MNDude

Forty years ago I remember seeing Alabama Gov. George Wallace on TV standing at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in a symbolic attempt to block two black students from enrolling at the school.

In the natural course of events we have or are drifting depending on one’s POV back to segregation of the races. Who’d have thunk it. Why do all the government solutions worked so well in theory but never in the “real” world. I’m sure the media will say it’s time to find and prosecute those “white segregationists” who have been hiding all this time and pass some new laws to re-establish desegregation among the minorities.

As far as government education is concerned, I’m with what Bobby Jindall has advocated. Let the states give them vouchers, so that these minorities can choose the better private schools or the education they want. Let the crappy government schools die a natural death if they don’t improve the quality of their education. Get away from affirmative action and let the best schools enroll students by academic qualifications, not numbers. Get away from teaching to screwed-up government curricular, tests, and grading standards. Allow government schools to promote religion if they want.

Those minorities that “want to be educated” should be entitled to find the best schools for their qualifications and pursue an education in the career of their choice. If they fail academically, then so be it. Not everybody can be a doctor or a rocket scientist or a plumber or an auto mechanic. Some are so talented they could sell ice to an Eskimo, be a movie or rock star, or a sports legend without a formal education. And some are just plain stupid. I believe the John Wayne quote about life being harder if you’re stupid is fact.

As far as government housing and other areas of government control are concerned, I’m sure somebody else has some better ideas than the socialist bureaucrats in Washington.

Pardon me while I try to find my flame retardant jock strap.


28 posted on 05/15/2014 6:26:59 AM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: MNDude

If you read the article it seems the implied solution to segregated schools is to prevent segregated housing patterns. I’m sure that will entail more section 8 housing, $0 down o% low payment mortgage assistance,and soon to be followed by a program of forced “ willing buyer willing seller” at a “fair” government approved price.


29 posted on 05/15/2014 6:30:25 AM PDT by bonehead4freedom
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To: Graybeard58

Ditto. Anybody who would refuse to sell a house to someone whose ethnicity they didn’t like despite the buyer willing to pay at or above fair market value is not so much a racist as he or she is a moron.


30 posted on 05/15/2014 6:31:32 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: John O

I have friends from Nigeria. They want nothing to do with American blacks.


31 posted on 05/15/2014 6:32:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Altura Ct.

I am out here in the “white” fortress of Orange County, California. There are more and more Hispanic kids and fewer and fewer white kids. Even with forced busing as in olden days, it would be impossible to avoid majority Hispanic schools. What are the geniuses who like to dictate everything going to do about that?


32 posted on 05/15/2014 6:33:27 AM PDT by Sam Clements
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To: Gaffer
Some [I'll take the familiar Democrat pundit unsubstantiated claim tack here] say that Section 8 housing is an intentional government plan to move the 'unfortunate' out of public housing directly into our midst.

It's not a rumor and no secret.
http://www.fox19.com/story/14993899/reality-check-section-8-housing-moves-to-the-suburbs

Here, the gov plainly states it:
"http://section-8-help.com/"

"Housing is not limited to subsidized housing projects and can include homes and apartments that are located anywhere. Families can select from privately-owned apartments, homes and townhouses that the owner has made available for rent."

33 posted on 05/15/2014 6:37:40 AM PDT by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Texicanus

I’ll all for school choice and vouchers, but the fact is only the brightest black parents will take advantage of them. The great majority of parents of the black underclass don’t give a rip about what school their kids go to. And the low IQs and indifferent and/or hostile attitude towards learning of many of those kids will prevent them from getting a decent education anyway.


34 posted on 05/15/2014 6:39:46 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: MNDude

So, how’s that forced busing thing working out for ya?


35 posted on 05/15/2014 6:42:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sam Clements

Continue to tax the living s**t out of the white families until they leave or live in poverty.
Actually, that is the real plan.
Just most Americans have not seen it for all of the obvious reasons...


36 posted on 05/15/2014 6:48:13 AM PDT by bill1952 (taxes don't hurt the rich, they keep YOU from becoming rich.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Segregation exists because blacks and Latinos purposely choose to live in areas where they will be in the majority. It doesn't matter how bad the crime rate is or that the schools there are just pit stops on the way to jail. Blacks and Latinos will choose 95%+ of the time to live near others of their race.

They do it to themselves everywhere. I work with several black guys, none of whom are ghetto. Decent, most of them are pretty hardworking and knowledgeable. They'll sit and eat lunch with us. But as soon as there's a couple of them working, they'll tend to all sit together, bunch up on work, and kind of segregate themselves. Nothing malevolent, it just happens. I don't know if they even do it on purpose or not.
37 posted on 05/15/2014 6:48:38 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: driftless2

Yes, the bright minority parents want their children educated and the low information parents do not want to see that happen. Remember they want equality but at the lowest level. They want to physically and mentally intimidate the brighter students and their parents into accepting less than they can be.

As more minorities achieve success on their own through a better quality of education, the low information types will not be able to use racism and other things as an excuse for their condition.

Yes, dumbass people come in all colors and races and so do smart people. Ask anybody to deny this.


38 posted on 05/15/2014 7:05:05 AM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Adder
That is not true: they get the same education opportunities as others: they are simply less prone to take advantage of it: there is not a difference in curriculum or any other “opportunity”.

ESSAY BY A TEACHER IN A BLACK HIGH SCHOOL
39 posted on 05/15/2014 7:08:11 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: MNDude

I suppose he wants to bus people from 100 miles away in to these mostly minority populated areas to decrease the ratio of local citizens in the school system just because they happen to be the same color. What are you going to do about the ratio of blacks and whites in African schools? Bus in students from other countries? On housing, poor blacks are living in what they can afford or in government housing (which for some reason is never located in white neighborhoods).


40 posted on 05/15/2014 7:11:38 AM PDT by macglencoe (You see what the left hand is doing, but you should be watching the right hand.)
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