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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]De facto segregation is still segregation.[/quote]

It's not the same, though.  The word "segregation" is a loaded word.

I don't think you can engineer society.  One could also argue that historically black colleges are segregated because they have majority minority populations, but that's largely because they attract majority minority populations.

In Maryland, overall, your address determines your school.  If the neighborhood that feeds to a particular school is majority minority, then it is reasonable to assume the school is going to be majority minority.

You can't force people to move to certain neighborhoods.  And especially for young children, I don't think they will have an increased likelihood of success if they have to travel 30 minutes or more both ways to get to school each day.

What the article doesn't mention is that I don't believe there are any public schools in PG or Baltimore City that are NOT majority minority.  So what do you do?  Force kids from another county to attend the PG school and take kids out of PG to attend a school in AA county?  Because the demographics are such that PG and Baltimore are majority minority areas.

It doesn't seem to matter to me so much whether a school is predominantly one race or not.  What matters and what we should focus our attention on is that all kids get a good education, so we should focus on identifying why schools in PG and Balt. City aren't performing well and help improve them.  Then it won't matter what the majority race is in any one school district;  all kids in all districts will have access to a quality eduction.  [/quote]

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