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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Integration is not the answer. We should stop thinking of ways to force people to live and go to school together. [/b]Those with economic and political control have made it abundantly clear that blacks are inferior to them and they do not want to live near them or go a school with a significant black population. They spent much in time and resources crafting standardized tests and establishing charter schools, G&T programs and other programs to find race neutral ways to isolate our kids. The mere existence, albeit paltry, of upper class black families in these schools/programs does not negate this fact.

The message is received and many in the black community would rather homeschool than send our kids to a school in a community we are not wanted, or in the case of public schools, that is largely neglects the actual needs of the students they serve.

There has been much research on closing the wealth gap. In terms of public schools, Instead of forced integration, lets invest heavily in getting more black teachers in local schools, improving our history and social studies curriculum, invest in enrichment and afternoon programs and reform the education tracks to include trade skills, conflict resolution and economics. Take police out of schools. Otherwise, for those in economically depressed communities, provide those who choose to home school with the funds necessary to do so, including a stipend of sorts for the home schooling parent(s) to help pay the bills.

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I respect your opinion, but I don't think separate but equal has ever worked in this country.  If you agree that institutional racism is a thing, I can't ever imagine sending my kid to an all-black school and expecting it to receive the same resources that a white school does.  It also won't fix the legacy of racism and concentrated poverty in many neighborhoods, and so the achievement gap would remain.  There is still a lot of de facto segregation--for example, WOTP vs. the rest of DC--but I think better integration is the imperfect but hopeful answer.

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Separate but equal never worked because um..... it never happened.

Schools do not need to be integrated with upper middle class white kids to be “better”. The problem is not student racial demographics. [/quote]

Schools do not need to be intergrated with UMC white kids to be "better" but it certainly helps a school to get an adequate share of resources and effective teachers when there is a critical mass of UMC white kids at a school. Brown v. Board of Education was not just about the social impact of de jure segregation it was a recognition that that integration was the only way black children would have access to the same resources as white children.[/quote]

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