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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone read the NYTimes article this weekend about school zoning in Minneapolis? [/quote]

I just read it and feel bad for the kids being bussed in. The article starts off with "Parents peppered her with questions. Exactly how many A.P. courses did her school offer? Was Spanish the only language option? " They later state that Spanish is the only option and never address the AP question. Sacrifice your kid's education in the name of equity seems to be the pitch. [/quote]

I read it and appreciated the honest approach to desegregation reflected in this quote.

[quote]“Everyone wants equity as long as it doesn’t inconvenience them,” said Eric Moore, senior officer for accountability, research and equity for Minneapolis Public Schools, where about a third of students — some 10,000 children of different races — were assigned to new schools this year.

The changes included redrawing school zones, including for North. [b]“This plan is saying, everyone is going to be equally inconvenienced because we need to collectively address the underachievement of our students of color,”[/b] Mr. Moore added.[/quote]

It is refreshing to see someone speaking honestly rather than gaslighting parents about whether it will have any impact on their kids.[/quote]

It sounds like that approach went exactly how you would expect

[quote]
Signs of Change: A Few New Students, and Lacrosse

By the start of the school year, Minneapolis had moved closer to its ambitions: It decreased the number of racially isolated schools — defined by the district as 86 percent or more students of color — to 13 from 21.

But North High was not among them. Of 440 students, 30 are white.

Still, 13 of the white students — nearly half — are in the freshman class, the cohort affected by the new boundary. Overall, the school serves 93 percent students of color, down from 98 percent.
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of course then the principal clearly does not care about her white students, what does the district expect:

[quote]
And Ms. Friestleben remains focused on what has been her goal all along: building a school that centers and uplifts children of color.

If white families want to be a part of that environment, they are welcome, she said. But if they cannot see all that she sees in her school — teenagers laughing and fist bumping, advanced classes filled with students of color — she is undeterred.

“We are not going to let anyone else be our validators or invalidators,” she said.
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