Integration and DC Schools -- A high priority? Yay or nay?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plessy

Somebody keeps sticking this case name in here like it's relevant.

We're way past formal separate but equal.

We're dealing with residential segregation, people voting with their feet (e.g., white and black flight), de facto segregation, the interaction between public schools, charters, and private schools, race, and class.

We're at a point where nothing can plausibly be done by the courts to fix the problem. The Supremes are UNDOING the Voting Rights Act before our eyes. Are they really going to say, DC, you get to have an all-Metro-area blind lottery and mass busing? No. And without those kinds of macro-solutions, we start to come up with more practical, smaller scale solutions.

So don't come around just writing the name "Plessy." Maybe I should just write "Milliken" and we can move on.

It’s actually the reverse - to the extent DCPS keeps up boneheaded “integration” plans that seem to have no goal other than shuffling white kids around (see: Maury-Miner) there will eventually be a lawsuit that DCPS loses.