Victims of “racial balancing (issues-views.com)
on April 5th, 2005 at 10:04 am“Dear Editor:
My children and my community have been victims of racial balancing. My children last year attended a school with 47% minority: 28% black, 19% Catawba Indian. It was one of the poorest schools in the district, yet it had some of the highest over-all math scores. This year, the black minority numbers [in the district] were not high enough, so they shipped the white students, my children, to an inner city school, making the black population of that school 43% rather than 65%.
Now unlike our poor rural school, which had a lot of parental involvement, my children go to a school without any. No children from the wealthier white neighborhoods were bused into the inner city, only rural and blue collar white children were bused in. The wealthy whites bus into their neighborhoods just enough blacks to keep the NAACP happy, then sacrifice the lower middle class to the inner city schools.
It’s a wicked system and has been going on for 30 years, since busing began in Rock Hill, SC. There’s nothing we can do, since both black and white power seem to be happy with it. We tried a lawsuit, but got a former NAACP judge. What can we do? ” (more…)
