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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]comments are largely negative.  NYT readers have turned the corner on diversity measures, I guess. [/quote]

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I think that goes for the vast majority of Americans.  [/quote]

White people don't want diversity.

MAGA,  right?[/quote]
Well, not just MAGA.  White liberals, too.  And don't forget about Asians.  Or Hispanics.  And the problem isn't "diversity"; it's black people they don't like very much.

In [i]San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez[/i], 411 U.S. 1 (1973), the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require the state to provide equal funding for school districts. As long as public schools are funded primarily through the local tax base and not through a single statewide monetary source, there will always be a vast disparity between wealthy and middle class, white school districts and poorer, black school districts.  (Interestingly, one year later, that same Supreme Court ruled school districts that failed to fund English language specifically for Chinese students to receive the same quality education as their white peers were in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  [i]See[/i] [u]Lau v. Nichols[/u], 414 U.S. 563 (1974).)

Neither white liberals nor white conservatives have any desire to upset this status quo. Conservatives don't believe that black students can be educated no matter how much money is invested in them.  [url]https://www.epi.org/publication/unfinished-march-public-school-segregation/[/url]; [url]https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/jul10/53.pdf[/url].

Liberals are not as strident in this belief, but their actions make clear they're not exactly crazy about sending their children to schools with more than a smattering of black kids. The most racially segregated states in the Union for public school students: New York and California.  [url]https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/press-releases/2021-press-releases/report-shows-school-segregation-in-new-york-remains-worst-in-nation[/url].

Asian families have long associated excellence in education as a product of white-majority schools and often sought remedy from the courts to avoid their children sitting next to black schoolchildren.  [url]https://time.com/4533476/lum-v-rice-water-tossing-boulders/[/url].  Hispanic parents share their Asian counterparts' low regard for black schools and students.  Both groups vehemently oppose any efforts to increase the number of black students at white-majority schools they perceive as offering an elite education.  [url]https://news.utexas.edu/2022/01/25/new-york-school-leaders-can-help-eliminate-parents-racial-avoidance/[/url]; [url]https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/metrocenter/perspectives/new-york-citys-plan-diversify-specialized-high-schools-racist-toward-asian[/url].[/quote]

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