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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just find it hard to believe that people's main concern is length of bus time.  Call me skeptical but I think there are other factors that people are concerned about that they do not want to actually admit.[/quote]

It is all I care about. I utterly reject the discriminatory notions that low-income students consume more resources, that white people don't want people of color, etc. Those are vile and [b]I don't believe that a large group o[/b][b]f parents are actually thinking tha[/b]t. You may not think that wasting time on a bus it a big deal, but I have a middle schooler with a lot of activities and homework, and he needs that time. He can't work on the bus - he gets car-sick if he does, and it's too noisy anyway.
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Then you are naive.  They might not be thinking of it in terms of "not wanting people of color" but I assure you they aren't just worried about bus times.[/quote]

+1 Most folks will tell themselves it isn't about race, it's about income, or "expectations."

But it's about race. Particularly in this area, race is so closely intertwined with other factors that they cannot easily be separated.

I would recommend that folks listen to A Problem We All Live with. The audio version. Listen to those folks, who were rightly pilloried for their attitudes about integration. Note that none of them talk about race, but it is SO CLEAR what they mean. Now imagine themselves making that case in public, and being recorded. The words would be virtually identical. [/quote]

For some people it's about real estate.  If home prices fall, many people will be upside down on their loans and most normal middle class families don't have the means to sell at that point.[/quote]

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