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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t she change schools? Are majority black schools overcrowded? They won’t take her?
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Why shouls she change school?  The y should bus mire black students into Whitman to support her and shut off the racists in the school if it was true.[/quote]

They should shut off the racists in the school if it was true.

But why should they bus more black students to Whitman? Creating diversity just for the purpose of diversity?

My view on this is clear: a school reflects the neighborhood. If the neighborhood itself is not diverse, there is no reason to make the school diverse. That's not the way to do it.
If you want to encourage people of diverse background to move into the neighborhood, that is fine.

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[b]Except for the fact many of these neighborhoods aren't diverse because of policies like red-lining and other Jim Crowe shenanigans that are illegal today and failing to address these wrongs of the past only prolongs these issues.[/b]  [/quote]

This.  Schools should attempt to diversify their student populations, given this history of discriminatory policies.  Also, research has pointed out the many positive and practical benefits of diversity, so it's not simply diversity for the sake of diversity.[/quote]

Do no agree. School takes students, and should not do anything to make the student population more or less diverse. Regular schools should treat all kids in the neighborhood the same. Special schools should be merit based.

If you really want diversity, work on changing the neighborhood, instead of the school that receives students from the neighborhood (of course, unless if the school has discriminating policies).

Diversity is something that should not be achieved by the receiving party. 
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Just curious, why are you so against public schools taking measures to achieve diversity?[/quote]

I have no problem with achieving diversity anywhere - not enthusiastic but do not have a problem with others wanting that.

I am against the wrong approach, not the goal. When I hear people proposing something which I think is wrong, but they justify it because the goal is good, I don't like that.

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PP again.  Do you agree that achieving at least some measure of diversity at schools is a good thing?  The girl in the Kojo Nnamdi discussion said that she was one of only two--TWO--minorities in most of her classes.  She said people joked on Instagram that they had a Black History Month assembly, but they have no black students at the school.  If that percentage of minority students were increased a bit, wouldn't that be a good thing?

Also, why is increasing diversity at schools simply "wrong?"  You state it's wrong, but don't explain why.[/quote]

I think I explained in my other posts. Increasing diversity in a school is a goal. It is not wrong. How you do it can be right or wrong.

Penalizing those with racist behaviors, that is the right approach.

Busing in black students from other schools, that, I consider a wrong approach. You don't break the rules just for achieving diversity.

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