Why Wake County families want to send children far from home for diversity?
Wake Co (NC) is very enflamed right now over the school board ending bussing policies to create diversity. This method has been ineffective since the 70's. I wouldn't want to send my children far away to make their bus ride longer. Isn't best the children be close to home, easy to pick up in case of emergency? It seems unfair to parents who plan/work hard to be in specific school zones to force their kids to schools farther away. Diversity will happen naturally. Low income couples can prevent their children from low income area schools by delaying starting a family until they are financially established. Everyone is equal so why would it be hurtful being in a school even if most people are your own race? How can this be fair to everyone when only certain children are bussed and not others? Do people really believe this will help the children?
Geography - 1 Answers - 2010-06-29 20:53:51
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it isn't about the children. it never is. it's about politics pure and simple. dollars. votes. lines on a map. diversity will never happen naturally. it never does. and some of us are glad of that fact. low income couples will never delay starting families. they never do. for some, it is a means to become more financially established, because for each child they have, they get more money and benefits. for the rest, it's because they weren't taught at home to keep their pants on until they could support themselves and a family and this isn't a problem just for wake county. we have our own, similar problems in the triad just west of you. it is always best for the children to be closer to home, going to school in their own nieghborhoods.....but, tell that to the low income parents who think their children are losing out on or being slighted or somehow 'missing' something because they didn't get to go to my children's school......while my children were forced to go across town and to a much less equipped and prepared school, simply because some minority parents thought their children were missing something we have. it isn't the school that makes the child. it's the parents and the kind of examples they are given at home, not the school that determines whether these children are successful in life or not. not whether they were forced to go to a 'better' school or not. my children were honor students at the school in our nieghborhood, and when forced to go to a school in the middle of town which has a bad reputation and dismal graduations rates, they still remained honor students. it isn't the school, the nieghborhood or the children. it's the parents, who expect someone else to do the parenting for them, and the politicians who do as they have to to continue getting the minority vote, who keep perpetuating this problem. and to be sure, everyone is NOT equal. the statistics don't lie.
"some minority parent thought they were missing something because they didn't get to go to my children's school"
ReplyDeleteReally? Have you done any reading at all on this subject? Wake County was a national model. The superintendent was named superintendent of the year in the COUNTRY. Wake County went from having a number of low performing schools, no none. NONE.
Until you can guarantee that neighborhoods will have a number of affordable housing options, communities are segregated. Segregated based on race and income. Why? Because instead of including affordable housing within neighborhoods, it is concentrated in certain areas.
And guess what? Those children did not CHOOSE to be poor. So, why should they suffer? Have you ever heard of the cycle of poverty? Have you ever tried to live on min. wage? And you expect people to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps." Until you've walked a mile in someone else's shoes or even have any clue what you're talking about. Please don't blog.