here's a novel idea, try grouping them according to their IQ regardless of class or color...
Posted on 12/20/2009 3:49:38 AM PST by reaganaut1
The Chicago public schools’ [CPS] response to a recent court desegregation ruling — a plan to use students’ social and economic profiles instead of race to achieve classroom diversity — is raising fears that it will undermine the district’s slow and incremental progress on racial diversity.
Chicago schools, like the city itself, are hardly a model of racial integration. But a Chicago News Cooperative analysis of school data shows the district has made modest gains in the magnet, gifted, classical and selective-enrollment schools, where, for nearly 30 years, race has been used as an admission criterion. Those advances may be imperiled in the wake of court rulings that have prompted [CPS] to look for factors other than race when assigning students to such schools.
Nationwide, court rulings have prompted school districts to seek creative ways to diversify classrooms without using a student’s race as a factor. In Chicago, school officials last week moved ahead with their own experiment.
Instead of race as an admissions factor, they now will use socioeconomic data from the student’s neighborhood — income, education levels, single-parent households, owner-occupied homes and the use of language other than English as the primary tongue — in placing children in selective-enrollment schools.
A 1980 federal consent decree had, for nearly three decades, made the use of race a factor in admission to Chicago’s magnet and selective-enrollment schools. In September, a federal district court judge in Chicago vacated that decree. In the district’s neighborhood schools, race was not considered in assigning students.
School officials have turned to socioeconomic data to assign students because research suggests a close association between race and those measures. Still, parents fear that the shift in admissions policy, accompanied by a decision to give siblings and neighborhood children preference for admission to magnet schools, could [reduce diversity].
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The article eventually mentions that only 9% of CPS students are white. I lived in Chicago for a few years, and the 9% number results from (1) affluent white parents fleeing to the suburbs (2) even low-income whites sending their kids to Catholic schools.
Whites and Asians do not want to to send their kids to majority black and Hispanic schools, because of rational fears of their kids not learning anything (at best) and being beat up (at worst).
“Instead of race as an admissions factor, they now will use socioeconomic data from the student’s neighborhood — income, education levels, single-parent households, owner-occupied homes and the use of language other than English as the primary tongue — in placing children in selective-enrollment schools.”
Perhaps they should just study how potatoes are graded and separated! ;-)
This is silly. I am going to go out on a limb here and claim that the Chicago Public Schools do not turn away any resident who wants to (bravely) set foot in their system. How can there be any discrimination in this case?
Yeah though I walk through the city of death, I attend a school of blight and liberal despair, to prepare myself for naught, but procreation and government benevolence.
You mean like the Detroit kids who can do no better than guess at the answers to a standardized test?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403358/posts
The public school system doesn’t discriminate; any child that is an overachiever must be discouraged and brought down to the lowest level asap.The collective system cannot operate succesfully otherwise.
The white minority thing is real, but my guys mix easily with kids of all races who share our wish for a good education. Both the Clout Scandal and this federal ruling have helped us so far. Being in the minority has helped us because all the schools need some of that good old fashioned white bread in Chicago.
here's a novel idea, try grouping them according to their IQ regardless of class or color...
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