NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/4957.html

I remember being bussed across a school district in 1973.

In that it was a single contiguous school district, I saw it then (and see it now) as fair.

NEW ORLEANS -- Sen. John Edwards plans to warn later this week that the nation’s schools have become segregated by race and income, and he will propose measures to diversify both inner-city and middle-class schools.

The plan calls for beefing up inner-city magnet schools to attract suburban kids, and providing extra money for schools in middle-class areas as a reward for enrolling more low-income students.

Let me see... in our area, our schools are in a completely separate STATE from the city...

And instead of people being given incentives to bus students back and forth, our area has experienced the fact that poor people MOVE to our county to get away from the crime, get away from the lack of jobs, and get their kids access to much better schools (better, because they are run better with less money per student than the city schools).

Busing...I always think that this word is so weird. It just looks so, you know? It looks like it should be read Bew-sing, not Bus-sing. Am I just crazy, or what?

so instead of actually sorting out schools hes going to let a few fall apart and somehow magically fix inner city ones...because it will sort out class/race divides by cramming them all together

can we have some competent politicians now?

can we have some competent politicians now?

of course not.

Kansas City tried busing and building inner city schools (they even paid for taxis to shuttle kids around). Spent a billion dollars to do it. Built or remodeled every inner city school. Took money from the rural school that never did discriminate to do it. Rural schools literally went through the city dumpsters to salvage what the city schools were throwing away.

The result. Rural schools went down hill. The money moved across the border into Kansas. (Making the Kansas side richer and more populous than the Missouri side.) The tax base for the city dropped like a rock. The city services dropped which drove even more people out. Those that could pay taxes left and those that needed services were left behind. Urban sprawl went into overdrive.

The new inner city schools were destroyed by those in a culture that didn't care. And they are far more minority than when the experiment started.

The moral of the story....You can buy a horse a gold plated tank and fill it with the finest designer water, but you can't make him drink or not kick holes in the tank.

I think we should provide equally, but not steal from those that appreciate to give even more to those that don't give a d---.

can we have some competent politicians now?

Divide by zero error AKA impossible