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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I truly think it’s a white supremacist dog whistle.  They want the schools closed so they can just erase the poor black/brown students in those communities.  There’s likely an assumption that most of them will end up being incarcerated anyway so the only reason to keep such schools open is to enable the school-prison pipeline.[/quote]

I think it's the other way around. Closing the schools makes it more likely those kids end up in school with their snowflakes. I think most white supremacists are perfectly happy to have failing schools warehouse black/brown kids far away from their own children. [/quote]

But I don’t think they consider the nuance or use logical reasoning.  They just don’t feel those kids or their communities “deserve” to be in school so go with the snap argument of shutting them down without really considering all the consequences.  It’s a punitive mindset of punishing the poor.  Make it harder to vote, get medical care, obtain an education or good jobs, secure housing, etc.

Remember there was a time in history when parts of Virginia shut down entire school districts rather than desegregating.[/quote]

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