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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ideally, everyone should attend their neighborhood school. Then we would get "natural" diversity. Except of course ghettos and mega rich districts. [b]But it is life, you always have extremes[/b]. Ghettos are not cured by bussing in middle class kids. Rich neighborhood are not diversified by bussing in disadvantaged kids.
Of course, private schools will not cease to exist, unless there is immense political will (which there won't be).
So we will have what we have now. I sent my kid to the neighborhood school and it is working out fine. If I had the money, I would probably move or send him to private. [/quote]

Residential segregation doesn't happen as a force of nature, like gravity. It's the result of policies made by people. Social engineering.[/quote]

+100  To be even more specific, residential segregation is the result of specific government policies that created racially segregated towns and neighborhoods through red-lining, housing covenants, and disallowing Black Americans from participating in programs like the GI Bill and Medicaid in the early years.

Forget slavery and Jim Crow (actually, don't forget them) - look at generational wealth as pass down through home ownership.  That's one of the biggest contributors to ongoing disparities in outcomes in the US.  [/quote]

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