Mississippi School District Ordered to Desegregate Its Schools

[SummerMadness]

Mississippi School District Ordered to Desegregate Its Schools

A federal court has ordered a town in Mississippi to desegregate its high schools and middle schools, ending a five-decade-long legal battle over integrating black and white students.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi ordered the Cleveland School District to consolidate the schools after rejecting two alternatives proposed by the school district, saying they were unconstitutional.

 

[nightflight]

Until the kids get to college, then they will call for racial safe-spaces.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

I think Mississippi should be left as is and made into an attraction.

We could call it "The World of Yesterday."

 

[nightflight]

So were black students banned from the white school?

 

[SummerMadness]

So were black students banned from the white school?

If you're interested, you're welcome to look into that subject yourself.

 

[nightflight]

If you're interested, you're welcome to look into that subject yourself.

I read the article; is there something else that wasn't posted that can answer my question?

 

[SummerMadness]

I read the article; is there something else that wasn't posted that can answer my question?

As I said, if you're interested, you can look into the subject yourself.

 

[nightflight]

As I said, if you're interested, you can look into the subject yourself.

Were the black students banned from the white schools?

 

[rambot]

Racism is NOT a problem in America!!!

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

I think Mississippi should be left as is and made into an attraction.

We could call it "The World of Yesterday."

Mind you....

Sixty-five percent of New York’s black students attend overwhelmingly nonwhite schools, compared with 45 percent in Mississippi, the report shows.

This has to be a neighbourhood-based thing, right? People tend to go to a school near where they live, if they live in a black area they go to a mostly black school, etc

 

[TerranceL]

Mind you....


This has to be a neighbourhood-based thing, right? People tend to go to a school near where they live, if they live in a black area they go to a mostly black school, etc

I went to a school that 95% mexican. It's a neighborhood thing.

 

[nightflight]

Racism is NOT a problem in America!!!

One would think, with all the race hoaxes abounding.

 

[Sistrin]

So were black students banned from the white school?

If you're interested, you're welcome to look into that subject yourself.

The answer is clearly no.

 

[Nithavela]

This has to be a neighbourhood-based thing, right? People tend to go to a school near where they live, if they live in a black area they go to a mostly black school, etc

That there are black, hispanic, white etc. areas only means that segregation is far stronger than just in schools.

 

[WolfGate]

Were the black students banned from the white schools?

No, they were not.

However, the Board of Education could have easily fixed this issue. The city has segregated with black families on the east side and white families on the west side. The Board of Education can't do anything about that. They do control attendance zones and the district drew their attendance zones along those same east/west lines.

Neighborhood schools? To prevent bussing long distances? Think those come into play?. Nope.

The two high schools in question are all of 1.3 miles apart by road and located near the center of town. They end up being about .6 miles north to south and about the same east to west from each other. The city could have easily done their districting with a north/south division instead of east/west and their segregation issue would have gone away. Look at a map of Cleveland. It is plain as day.

I have a passing interest in Cleveland. My daughter has been recruited as an athlete at Delta State, which is located in the town. I think I'm glad she is planning to go elsewhere.

 

[TheBear]

Should children be subject to lengthy school bus rides in order to accommodate "desegregation"? Does it make sense that a child living within a few blocks of a school, in a neighborhood mostly their own race/ethnicity, now has to travel cross town in order to accommodate "desegregation"?

IOW - If the schools aren't banning students because of their race, isn't this nothing more than a logistics issue?

 

[trunks2k]

Should children be subject to lengthy school bus rides in order to accommodate "desegregation"? Does it make sense that a child living within a few blocks of a school, in a neighborhood mostly their own race/ethnicity, now has to travel cross town in order to accommodate "desegregation"?

According to Wolf Gate, these schools are less than 1.5 miles apart by road in the center of town. So it's not like changing the lines of who attends which school would be adding a lengthy bus rides for any students. The line is drawn essentially north->south which creates a defacto segregation, when it could just as easily be drawn east->west and not be segregated.

 

[Tallguy88]

I think Mississippi should be left as is and made into an attraction.

We could call it "The World of Yesterday."

Didn't read the article I take it?

"Segregation is not just a characteristic of Southern states. Some of the most severely segregated conditions for Latino and African-American students occur in New York, Maryland and Illinois, the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a report on Monday.

Sixty-five percent of New York’s black students attend overwhelmingly nonwhite schools, compared with 45 percent in Mississippi, the report shows."

 

[Tallguy88]

That there are black, hispanic, white etc. areas only means that segregation is far stronger than just in schools.

Or that people naturally gravitate toward people like them. If blacks prefer the company of blacks, how does that get blamed on white racism?

 

[TheBear]

According to Wolf Gate, these schools are less than 1.5 miles apart by road in the center of town. So it's not like changing the lines of who attends which school would be adding a lengthy bus rides for any students. The line is drawn essentially north->south which creates a defacto segregation, when it could just as easily be drawn east->west and not be segregated.

So, if you live south of an arbitrary line, and there was a school in your neighborhood, would you send your child further away, (north of this arbitrary line), for no other reason than to circumvent the situation?

What about students in East LA? Most are Hispanic. 87% are Spanish speaking, with only 12% English speaking. By your definition, that's defacto segregation. Should they be bused to predominately white, English speaking schools?