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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]De-segregation would work even better if we require mixed-race tables in the school lunchrooms.  That would teach the students the correct mind-set from the very beginning.  Over time, general social desegregation would become a matter of learned behavior, rather than a product of government-mandated busing.[/quote]

I would never ever send my child white or black to a school that required such social engineering. Encouraging it or making it part of some lunchroom rotation of seating fine but if you start counting races at tables and making kids move because of it I am out.[/quote]

Well then it could become part of a diversity awareness program at the schools.  The principal and the homeroom teachers could make presentations to the kids explaining how important it is for a diverse tapestry to exist at every lunch-table, and indeed the entire school.  I agree that forcing the kids to sit together might seem a bit draconian, but they should at least be educated from the very beginning about what is appropriate behavior in society.[/quote]

When I was in elem and middle school we were required to sit with our class. And because the class was diverse, the people sitting next to us were diverse. [/quote]

That's what my child's (suburband) Title 1 Elementary does. They have long tables with benches and classes sit together, and they sit in the order that the file into the cafeteria in so that  kids aren't jockeying for position. Nobody blinks an eye. This is not social engineering. It's socialization and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would have a problem with this. I have visited at lunch and all the kids are laughing and talking together and just being kids. [/quote]

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