Jim Devine writes: >> I hope that nobody has to go to a school where the administration sees >> it as one of their goals to encourage Blacks to sit with Whites, etc. >> The plaint about "oh, those Blacks sit only with each other" seems >> nothing but a more pleasant way of saying "oh, those Blacks _still_ >> don't like us Whites." (Of course, I cannot see into David's cranium, >> so that may not be what _he_ is saying.) But I don't see why we should >> expect the Blacks to like us Whites, especially given how poorly we've >> treated them over the years. >> >> School administrations shouldn't take David's complaint as a guide for >> policy. The point is that now the segregation is only one of lunch >> tables and the like. Unless the admins have used tracking without >> thinking, kids of all sorts of different ethnicities are in the same >> classes. Further, the lunch table segregation is _voluntary_ (the >> Blacks are "free to choose," right?) whereas the old-style segregation >> was _involuntary_.
It doesn't bother me (not that I would be opposed to the world looking like a Pepsi commercial). I just throught that the implication of Michael's comment -- vouchers might be ok for higher education but not for elementary/secondary because public schools bring people together -- was funny in the context of my experience. >> > It has never happened and it will never happen. If 50 years of >> > court-ordered >> integration efforts have taught us anything, middle and upper class parents >> will do >> almost anything to avoid having to send their kids to schools dominated by >> lower >> class kids.< >> >> that fits a Marxist analysis: AA and the like are mere reforms. To >> break down class barriers, a revolution is needed. Right, David? Animal Farm, chapter 10. Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss. I promise to subscribe to the People's Weekly World if you can point to any evidence that, 25 years after any alleged socialist revolution or taking of power by a socialist government, the children of the members of the politburo or equivalent were going to elementary schools dominated by children of the peasants or lower class workers. David Shemano
