Man...its only 7:30 a.m. and I'm already using up my two posts for the day:
Mr. Wilson: how does your proposal plan to abate white/affluent flight from your new racially integrated neighborhoods? Does your proposal intend to grant financing only to families acceptible to the neighborhoods and somehow discourage others? How will you calm fears that the socioeconomic drama disproportionately faced by families of color and low income won't disrupt the reputations of schools in the more affluent areas in town? Is home ownership the only thing keeping brown families out of those areas? I know you've called it just a "simple" plan, but I wonder if such simplicity does the total issue justice...it seems to me that in the past 50 years, your idea has to have been tried already....
Shauna Croom working in Mpls
David Wilson wrote:
A simple proposal: spend some of the busing money on mortgage financing to promote homeownership in selected neighborhoods. Racially integrate where people live, and the results will be more integrated public schools.
David Wilson Loring Park
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Sean Ryan wrote:
From: Barbara Lickness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How far have we come in Minneapolis in the past 50 years?
Any School Board candidates out there care to comment
on this?
People segregate themselves and that's the problem, but no amount of busing will solve this. Sayles Belton had a good idea when she dropped the whole super-bus program and brought back neighborhood schools. Now if they could only be equally funded and have access to the same programs and amenities [ -Drive around and compare the Mpls. High schools- which ones look the best and have the best facilities? You'll see a pattern emerge pretty quickly-]
MONEY is the great equalizer, not school buses.
Sean Ryan Audubon-
[Not quite responding to your comment, just throwing that out there. I'll have time for a more thorough response later.]
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