Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Wake County School Board
Wake County Board of Education voted Tuesday to end the school system's long-standing student assignment policy. The decade-old assignment method buses students across the district to help achieve socio-economic diversity, allowing no school more than 40 percent of students receiving free- or reduced-price lunches. This from an article on WRAL. (http://www.wral.com/news/education/story/7291508/) The board says it is not looking to segregate schools but give parents choices and keep kids closer to home. We as a society segregate ourselves. As much as we have moved forward we still keep certain aspect of our lives separate. Even though we are able eat in the same restaurants and sit any where we want to on a bus. We still go to different churches and buy homes in neighborhoods where people mostly look like ourselves. If we segegrate ourselves in our neighborhoods what would that make our neighborhood schools look like?
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I agree with you regarding our community activities. I believe that the diversity policy is not the real problem and I believe that we haven't gotten to the core issue of why the schools in certain neighborhoods aren't performing as well as schools in more affluent schools in Wake County. The other problem is the people deciding to change the policy because a certain sector of wants it changed. It is again the haves vs. the have nots. This to me will affect all the children. It's like when I moved here and my kids went to school the first year there were 5 children of color and two of them belonged to me, and no teachers that looked like them. To me that's a problem, especially in an affluent neighborhood. Because the real world is filled with all types of people. As a mother of mixed raced children,they don't see race, they see people who are good or bad period.
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