http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/time-to-move-on/ African-American culture, news commentary, politics Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:29:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/time-to-move-on/#comment-4723 KWB Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:43:34 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/06/29/time-to-move-on/#comment-4723 Integration was never the solution to substandard schools in anybody's neighborhood. It's very premise suggests that sitting a child of one race next to a child of a different race can somehow give them a better education, which is absurd. The answer was always to provide substandard schools with the resources they needed, and let children attend schools in their own neighborhoods. This in no way implies that I agree with legal segregation in any form. I just don't think that integration, in and of itself, has anything to do with improving education for any race. I think choice and vouchers for all would be a much better solution. Integration was never the solution to substandard schools in anybody’s neighborhood. It’s very premise suggests that sitting a child of one race next to a child of a different race can somehow give them a better education, which is absurd. The answer was always to provide substandard schools with the resources they needed, and let children attend schools in their own neighborhoods. This in no way implies that I agree with legal segregation in any form. I just don’t think that integration, in and of itself, has anything to do with improving education for any race. I think choice and vouchers for all would be a much better solution.

]]> http://blackinformant.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/time-to-move-on/#comment-4724 Craig Manson Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:27:21 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2007/06/29/time-to-move-on/#comment-4724 And you nailed it, too, Duane! Last night I was at a meeting of my book club (selection this time: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison), and nearly everyone was talking about "taking away" integrated schools! They bemoaned "the Court's decision to re-segregate." Unbelievable! The situation in 1954 and that of 2007 could not be more different. And we need to wake up and see that, And you nailed it, too, Duane! Last night I was at a meeting of my book club (selection this time: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison), and nearly everyone was talking about “taking away” integrated schools! They bemoaned “the Court’s decision to re-segregate.” Unbelievable! The situation in 1954 and that of 2007 could not be more different. And we need to wake up and see that,

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