Still reeling from two recent Supreme Court decisions.
Where is inhaler?Language regressing.
Weather gray.
Drinking doesn't help.
Eating might help.
Maybe retail therapy.
Must hibernate!
Still reeling from two recent Supreme Court decisions.Where is inhaler?
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i was just listening to this on NPR, and got really sad. in the 1990s this same thing happened at the school that i went to -- a white girl didn't get in because of the quota system that was in place, her father sued and now there are no more quotas. a school that was 35% black and hispanic is now 15% black and hispanic. there are so many issues i can't even start -- i am really afraid that decisions like this will lead to resegregation, see below:
"Whites are now the most segregated group, particularly outer suburban whites," he says, "whose children are being severely isolated from learning experiences that would prepare them to live, work, and participate in public life in a society that will become majority nonwhite in their lifetimes if existing trends continue."
the rest of the article: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/ed/2006/summer/features/resegregation.html
p.s. the end of that article is esp. sad considering the recent ruling.
I had to turn off the local coverage because it irritated me so much. The parents who sued the school district gave tearful interviews about how it was a great day for neighborhoods and justice had been served and in America nobody should be discriminated against based on race.
Oh hey! Let's pretend the district doesn't consider other factors besides race in making assignment decisions! Let's pretend race has no connection to housing patterns (and neighborhoods) and reframe the whole school-assignment debate purely in socio-economic terms, then pretend not to notice when all the statistics on housing patterns and low-income urban kids come right back to race!
Gaaack! Paper bag! Need paper bag! Breathe, breathe...
i got so annoyed when the people kept saying, "african american children were being displaced too, it wasn't just the white children who weren't getting the school of their choice."
i was like "african americans in the inner city have been displaced for YEARS AND YEARS. AND RARELY GET THE SCHOOL OF THEIR CHOICE."
now i need a paper bag.
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