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Little Rock desegregation plans go back to court
Associated Press ^ | September 18, 2011 | NOMAAN MERCHANT

Posted on 09/18/2011 2:37:41 PM PDT by decimon

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — More than a half-century after federal troops escorted nine black students into an all-white school, efforts to desegregate Little Rock's classrooms are at another turning point.

The state wants to end its long-running payments for desegregation programs, but three school districts that receive the money say they need it to continue key programs. And a federal judge has accused the schools of delaying desegregation so they can keep receiving an annual infusion of $70 million.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: desegregation; money; publicschools; schools; showmethemoney
Good enough for government work.
1 posted on 09/18/2011 2:37:45 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon
I have been watching this unfold, first-hand, for years. It comes down to one thing: Money.

The Pulaski County Special School District is a joke - just taken over by the state for fiscal mismanagement (why it took this long is beyond me). The bussing of students to insure racial percentages has created nothing more than a complete failure to educate students. The flight out of Little Rock is breathtaking, and the surrounding communities are reaping the growth.

2 posted on 09/18/2011 2:41:58 PM PDT by RobertClark (Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.)
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To: decimon; RobertClark
Christians of all races in this country need to be ashamed of ourselves. Our CHURCHES continue to naturally segregate. The LORD weeps.
3 posted on 09/18/2011 2:46:05 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege (Palin 2012)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Some preachers have made efforts to bring mixed races into their churches, with varying success. I’m a paleface who visited a black church once — they were pretty cool with me being there, and I later went with the preacher and his sons to a Promise Keepers rally in that city. (Whereupon I had to ask them please let’s don’t sit right down in front of the 1000 watt speakers — I couldn’t hear myself think and it was splitting my head. Can’t always take the ghetto out of the man even if you take the man out of the ghetto.)

That said, I wonder if people simply go on Sunday to be with the people they are most comfortable being around.


4 posted on 09/18/2011 3:01:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: RobertClark
I have been watching this unfold, first-hand, for years. It comes down to one thing: Money.

Money being the incentive for not achieving anything. Typical of government programs, if the ostensible purpose of the program were realized then the program would have to end. Can't have that.

5 posted on 09/18/2011 3:12:57 PM PDT by decimon
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To: RobertClark
" The bussing of students "

My motto was "Boating, not bussing...", and had that been the rule instead, we would have inner-cities today that would be habitable.

6 posted on 09/18/2011 3:14:55 PM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Your kidding, right?


7 posted on 09/18/2011 3:29:14 PM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: decimon
You can't and you won't change human nature. The Soviet Union killed 20 million people in pursuit of this "new man" concept. And in the end they failed. So the equally stupid and foolish US Federal Judges will fail and just as badly although thank God not as many will be killed.

But the real question is this. What's the quality of the Little Rock public schools? My understanding is that they are pretty terrible. That's what needs to be worked on, not some stupid formula from some idiotic Federal Judge.
8 posted on 09/18/2011 3:52:33 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: RobertClark
I am surprised to hear that coerced bussing is still even used anywhere. It was imposed by one of these psychopath judges in Cleveland about thirty-forty years ago, and it destroyed the city's population base. Anyone with kids who could afford it, Black, White or in between, fled the city like the plague. Now Cleveland perennially competes for the "poorest city" title. Didn't used to.
9 posted on 09/18/2011 3:59:11 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Cleveland lost to Chicago. The Nation has not needed the waterway to the Gulf in quite some time.


10 posted on 09/18/2011 4:03:17 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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Are there any white children left in the Little Rock Schools? I wouldn't have thought so.
11 posted on 09/18/2011 4:37:51 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

That’s called freedom....


12 posted on 09/18/2011 5:02:12 PM PDT by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I wonder if people simply go on Sunday to be with the people they are most comfortable being around.

You win the prize! And, I might add, there's nothing at all wrong with that.

13 posted on 09/18/2011 5:32:58 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Keynesians take the stand that the best way to sober up is more booze.)
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To: decimon

not to worry,

the universities will re-segregate the students when they enter as freshpeople.

/s


14 posted on 09/18/2011 6:27:11 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: DwFry

We here in this free country called America are in bondage to many masters. Slaves to pleasure. Slaves to money. Slaves to hate. But that’s understandable in a fallen world. Christians should be above that. Christ has set us free so we can walk in newness of life, to love neighbor as self. Our church was recently visited by an interracial couple: white husband and black wife. They had their four beautiful children with them whom they’ve home schooled and trained up to be lovers of God, and lovers of country. Their eldest daughter and I conversed about how awesome Sarah Palin is. :)

While our LORD doesn’t play favorites, You can just feel His smile on that family and His hand at work in their lives and walks.


15 posted on 09/18/2011 6:41:12 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege (Palin 2012)
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To: RobertClark

YOU have many valid points, all of which are made less by poor use of words.

“bussing” is lots of kisses, or in electrical terms the use of LARGE plates to distribute big loads of amps and volts.

“Busing” is the forced movement of (usually white) students into (usually black) schools.

“Insuring” something means that you have found an underwriter to pay “damages” if your proposal/idea/car crash either DOESN’T or DOES happen, depending on the circumstances.
“Ensuring” something is simply making sure what you say will happen, DOES.

Big difference, because WORDS MEAN THINGS!


16 posted on 09/18/2011 10:38:45 PM PDT by Don W (You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.)
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To: Don W
YOU have many valid points, all of which are made less by poor use of words.

“bussing” is lots of kisses, or in electrical terms the use of LARGE plates to distribute big loads of amps and volts.

“Busing” is the forced movement of (usually white) students into (usually black) schools.

“Insuring” something means that you have found an underwriter to pay “damages” if your proposal/idea/car crash either DOESN’T or DOES happen, depending on the circumstances.

“Ensuring” something is simply making sure what you say will happen, DOES.

Big difference, because WORDS MEAN THINGS!

With all due respect to your language acumen, I disagree with your points.

According to Merriam Webster:

bussing present participle of bus (Verb)1. Transport in a communal road vehicle: "managerial staff was bused in and out of the factory". 2. Transport (a child of one race) to a school where another race is predominant, in an attempt to promote racial integration.

Also,

insure transitive verb. To make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions.

Perhaps if your mannerism was not so obtuse I would have been less inclined to point out that I used the words exactly as intended and did so correctly. Now, go read a book. Might I suggest a dictionary?

17 posted on 09/19/2011 9:01:21 AM PDT by RobertClark (Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.)
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To: RobertClark

I’ll accept the difference in busing vs bussing. There are regional differences in many uses of many words.

Your dictionary has a misprint if that is the definition of *insure* it carries. The definition you cited is correct, for *Ensure*. As stated earlier, insure has a wholly different meaning. Ask ANY English major, or even a grade school teacher.


18 posted on 09/19/2011 10:37:20 AM PDT by Don W (You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.)
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To: Don W
Even Oxford says it was correctly utilized:

insure

verb

[with object]

1 arrange for compensation in the event of damage to or loss of (property), or injury to or the death of (someone), in exchange for regular payments to a company or to the state:the table should be insured for £2,500the company had insured itself against a fall of the dollar[no object] :businesses can insure against exchange rate fluctuations

secure the payment of (an amount in compensation) in this way:your new sum insured is shown on your renewal notice

provide insurance cover in respect of:subsidiaries set up to insure the risks of a group of companies

2 (insure someone against) secure or protect someone against (a possible contingency):by appeasing Celia they might insure themselves against further misfortune[no object] :such changes could insure against further unrest

3 another term for ensure

I will assume that your instruction to ask any "English major, or even a grade school teacher" is intended as an affront. Being not of thin skin, I will not permit a petty individual to beleaguer and bore me.

19 posted on 09/19/2011 11:25:15 AM PDT by RobertClark (Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.)
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To: RobertClark

My comment was not meant as a snark, but a reference to the rather strict and unyielding rules of grammar drilled into me while attending St. Anthony’s School.

Common usages are often referenced in many modern dictionaries. Just because they are commonly used/misused/abused does not excuse the misapplication of words, even if it is common practice.

Look at what has happened to English in the inner city, and you will see where common misuse of words leads.

Perhaps it seems somewhat pedantic, and maybe it is, but it’s a personal peeve.

Have a good day either way.


20 posted on 09/19/2011 1:12:58 PM PDT by Don W (You can forget what you do for a living when your knees are in the breeze.)
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