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Attempts at desegregation in US/"forced busing":
https://www.wesa.fm/post/unsucce…Tl;dr: Because people tend to settle separately according to their skin color (blacks with blacks, whites with whites etc), you have a strong racial disproportion in schools. Therefore black students drive 3 hours each way to study in white areas, and vice versa, white students drive 3 hours to study in black areas.
The result was as expected: white upper middle class families who could afford it took their children out of public schools and sent them to private ones (which are entirely white of course).
"Greenfield Elementary, for example, was supposed to go from about four-fifths white to half white and half black with the addition of children from Homewood, whose elementary school had become the Montessori. But so many white parents pulled their kids from the school that Greenfield ended up almost 75 percent black."
By the way, one of the main reasons for the urban exodus of white people to the suburbs, is exactly the wish to avoid desegregation busing.
And the core problem is always the same:
1) Social inequality, which is a taboo to address by name, because "socialism"
2) There are no Americans per se -- absence of a shared culture and tradition. America is a pirate wharf of random immigrants, a 300 year long failed experiment which is coming to an endDiscuss
- Discuss!pango
- sounds like an idiotic bandaid solution as opposed to actually addressing social/economic inequality.inteliboy
- It may seem trivial but the biggest problem I see is the inherent requirement to racialise language: Black Area, White Area, Black American, Asian American...Morning_star
- Why does it seem so difficult to call an geographical area or school by it's actual name or just claim to be 'an American' without enforcing divisive labels.Morning_star
- It would be easier to relocate some of these families. Make a lottery out of it, Americans love lotteriesdrgs
- Home schooling is the future.Doris_McSquirter
- It could have worked if they aimed at a lower black/white proportion. There is a thing called peer pressure, which works in both directions:drgs
- if you end up in a school with a bunch of asians (who as we know have the wildest cult of education), you have a choice, to be like everyone elsedrgs
- or fall out of the social circle, but it only works in a strongly formed environment, a 30/70 proportion would not work, it has to be lower than 5/95drgs
- This is so dumb and divisive. People go to the burbs because they want more "bang for their buck". People have kids and they don't want to live in their shoe-toemaas
- box with an additional person. It took years to convince my wife that living in the city will be more enriching for them than a little yard.toemaas
- box with an additional person. It took years to convince my wife that living in the city will be more enriching for them than a little yard.toemaas
- All the people whom ahve the child thing in common have the same issue. I've never heard, "I'm leaving the city because it's too black." So dumb... SMHtoemaas
- You are naive like a blind kitten. No sane person is going to reveal his inner racist, obviously. Explain the story with Greenfield Elementary <--drgs