Comments on: “That’s Very Odd”

By: Smarty

Smarty — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:58:14 +0000

Look, some of us realize that blacks in large numbers in schools means lower performance and higher crime. All they are forcing is for whites who care to take their kids out of public school.

By: Smarty

Smarty — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:56:20 +0000

Busing in black teachers too?

I’m sorry, but with affirmative action, and with what we know about the bell curve, I want teachers with the highest qualifications, not with the skin color de Jeur (sp). Start filling my kid’s school up with ebonics speakers, and I will homeschool. Of course, if Walter Williams could teach my kid economics, I’d thank my lucky stars.

By: Thomas Jackson

Thomas Jackson — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:04:37 +0000

Isn’t it time for the progressives out there to admit putting a white and a black next to each other doesn’t result in the rubbing off of intelligence, ambition or merit. If this were true the progressives like Hildabeast wouldn’t have avoided public schools like the plague nor would all those federal judges.

By: nk

nk — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:41:03 +0000

Chicago Public Schools have desegregated so well that while Chicago’s white population is about 50%, CPS’s white student population is about 8%. And that 8% is in magnet and charter schools. If it weren’t, it would be in private, parochial and suburban schools like the rest. (Even if you don’t live in a suburban school district, you can pay to go there if it has a seat for you.)

By: krazy kagu

krazy kagu — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:56:51 +0000

maybe it should be deducted from that judges pay checks like maybe 50% of it

By: Dana

Dana — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:50:39 +0000

A federal court order in 1976 forced the Wilmington, Delaware school district to be incorporated into the surrounding New Castle County school district, and that students be bussed to achieve racial balance. A couple of different plans were tried, but the basic effect was to destroy the public school system in New Castle County, and anyone who can in any way afford to send their children to private schools does so. Delaware has teh highest rate of private school attendance of any state, 32% last time I looked (2002), and the vast majority of that is due to New Castle County.

The county is now divided into four pie-shaped districts, each encompassing part of the city and spreading into the suburbs — and there is not a single public high school in the city of Wilmington itself. Blacks from the city are trucked out to suburban high schools, while white middle schoolers are bussed into the city.

NCCo supports at least four diocesian Catholic high schools; when we moved away (2002), tuition at the diocesian high schools was about $7,000 a year, and they were all full and had waiting lists to get in. In addition, there were at least three non-diocesian Catholic high schools, where the tuition was $12,000 a year. On top of that were several private schools not connected with the Catholic Church; one of my friends there went to a Baptist school.

The middle school my daughters attended, Corpus Christi, was packed to the rafters, with 32 students per class, and there was a waiting list to get in.

And what did the bussing order actually achieve? Demographically, Wilmington is 36.6% white, but the News Journal reported in 2001 or 2002 that a proposal to have a single school district for the city would result in a district that was 78% black, 13% Hispanic, and just 9% white and Asian. (Sorry that I don’t have a precise source link, but I remember the figures very well.)

And while the city is heavily black, the suburbs are very much less so. Hockessin, the unincorporated area in which I lived was only six miles from the city but as lily-white as Vermont. I grew up in the South, but New Castle County was absolutely the most segregated area in which I’ve ever lived.