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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very interesting interview with a MacArthur Genius Award winner who has studied segregation in schools and elsewhere.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/10/confronting-the-myths-of-segregation/542637/?utm_source=atlfb

Most thought-provoking excepts:

“Schools are also extremely intimate spaces. These are spaces where parents leave their children for eight hours. The kids are sitting next to each other in classrooms and the fear—which most people probably wouldn’t say now—is that white boys would fall in love with black girls or white girls would fall in love with black boys. There’s also the sense that black children are not safe—that children are more prone to violence. [b]And people automatically assume schools with large numbers of black children, particularly poor black children, are unsafe spaces.”[/b]
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“What remains the same is that white parents are going to get access to the best education in a public system. They’re going to get access to disproportionately white schools, and they will wield an array of tools to do that. So if the neighborhood that those white parents live in is white, they want neighborhood schools. If the neighborhood school that those parents are near is black, then they want choice. [b]So people will say they don’t want bussing, if their neighborhood school is white. If the neighborhood school is not white, they’ll bus their kids an hour away to get to a white school.[/b]”

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Oh gee, a non-white [i]jounalist[/i] telling us how white people think.  If this were the other way around, do you think it would have the same reaction.  Riddle me this:  Why does the ATS lottery generate such high demand in the lily white areas of Arlington when, if the kids get in, they will be in a school with, gasp, minorities and a higher FARMS rate?[/quote]

First. ATS is only 21% FARMS. Only 9 other schools have less FARMS. Over half of the kids at ATS are transferring in from the higher FARMS schools. People apply to ATS to flee certain schools in the county. Same reason people are dying to get into Claremont or Key. It is crazy to see how many kids transfer out of some schools. 413 transfers out of Abington last year. 352 out of Carlin Springs.

Don’t dismiss this researcher’s findings. We are living it right here.[/quote]

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