The Wake County School Board in North Carolina is one of many government school systems that factor in socio-economic status when assigning students to spread the races across the district. Under the plan, students are bused to schools outside their neighborhoods, a practice that appears unpopular among parents of all races.
Those who oppose busing students in Wake County believe the assignment plan should promote neighborhood schools. They want to remove all references to diversity and make neighborhood schools a priority.
This week, a member of the board’s three-person policy committee made a motion to recommend approving the assignment change, but the majority rejected it. “I didn’t feel right about the wording,” said board member Debra Goldman. “I need to eyeball this more, especially when the policy has such major implications.” (Source)
Goldman voted against the change in December as well. Busing opponents say she’s betrayed her constituents. Goldman, ironically, is part of a newly elected trio that ran campaigns opposing the busing plan.
“Our school system is not family friendly,” she says on her campaign web site. “As a concerned citizen, I have learned that true progress in our schools is not possible without involvement and support from the community. As a parent, I have firsthand experience with the burden of outdated reassignment practices.”
Defending her rejection of the change, Goldman said the board needs more information, and the wording of the change needs to be stronger.
Busing supporters wring their hands over “resegregation.” Majority-minority schools are to be avoided, even if it means hauling children to schools outside their neighborhoods. The implication is that black and Hispanic students can’t learn among their own. White students must be present, or we’re headed back to the days of Jim Crow. Isn’t it odd that people in homogenous countries like China and Japan aren’t fretting over lack of diversity? Apparently, they don’t have their priorities straight. Are school administrators in Scandinavia biting their nails over what to do about so many white faces? If not, perhaps they need a “Celebrate Diversity!” campaign.
Mostly in America will you perceive the dreaded fear of all- or majority-black government schools. Black children can’t learn, social engineers insinuate, unless they’re sitting beside white children. If blacks are doing poorly in school, the problem must be too few white students (and too few black teachers?). What excuse do poorly performing white students have — too many whites?
The only way out of the madness is homeschooling and private schools.
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