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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But isn't the more existence of these excellent schools, despite the fact that some are not yet integrated (25% white), proof that you don't need white kids ? That, given the support, you CAN make good schools with white kids?

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Agreed (with what you were trying to say!), but that's not what the lawsuit was about, exactly.  It wasn't about education per se, it was about a system predicated on the idea of separate but equal.  The court said you have to eliminate the "separate" part of that equation, and likely forced the state to pony up the money to try and do it.  If you get to the "equal" part but still have "separate" you haven't solved the problem, according to the ruling, which I assume was predicated on Brown v. Board of Education.[/quote]

+1. The other thing that struck me is that the point is not solely "equal" education. I would love to have equal education, but I do not personally consider the work done until it's not "separate" anymore either. I do not want my child to grow up in a homogeneous world. Well rounded people have a variety of experiences, interact with lots of different kinds of people. I know that that is hard for a lot of people on this board, which considers "diversity" to be "We have some biracial Asian kids in my child's school," to accept that their life experiences are not well rounded. I am not saying that you should move to the roughest part of the Hill you can find, but sometimes I think that it would have been much better for some of the sheltered adults I know to have experienced actual racial and socioeconomic diversity when they were children.[/quote]

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