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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]See, for example, Hobson v Hansen, where the court held that tracking was one of several tools used to enforce de facto segregation of DCPS schools.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson_v._Hansen[/quote]

That case was 45 years ago, decided on the heels of the Voting Rights Act, when schools were still de facto segregated. The fact that you know the wiki citation does not mean you have read it or understand how it is or is not relevant to the current educational environment. Take a minute and read the actual case, please.

Oh, and before some 28 year old wanna be SJW chimes in to say "Thinks are no better or different today than they were in 1967", please go find a black person who lived in American in the 50s and 60s and ask them about what they experienced before you embarrass yourself.   [/quote]

I’m the PP you are responding to. I attended segregated schools as a child.

I’m not sure what you imagine Hobson v. Hansen has anything to do with the Voting Rights act, given that the case is about whether the mechanisms adopted by an unelected school board to “cynically” (according to the opinion) re-segregate the schools in the wake of Bolling v. Sharpe were illegal.

However, the point that I was making was that the DCUM parents who take to this board every day to demand “equal treatment” - by which they mean the power to reshape DCPS policy to suit the needs of 17% of DCPS students through a variety of mechanisms including eliminating OOB seats, eliminating feeder patterns that allow Black kids to attend NW schools, and re-introducing tracking — are likely unaware of Hobson. Of course, the specific mechanism would be different than Hansen’s “four track curriculum”, and would thus likely be legal, but my point was that lots of people who ARE aware of the history are skeptical of these parents’ motives.  Particularly when, like me, they attended schools that were still officially segregated years after Brown v. Board and which — when they were forced to integrate —- immediately adopted gifted programs and/or tracking in which all the white kids magically turned out to be gifted and all the Black kids weren’t.

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