Why are South Fulton and Dekalb not diverse (Atlanta, Sandy Springs: apartments, employment)

[Larry X]

The reason is simple, most white folk don't want to live around a lot of black people no matter how good/bad the schools/areas are plain & simple. This will never change, it's 2015 and we are still seeing white flight in some suburbs now. Heck I don't mind, Georgia is one of the few places where blacks have very nice areas to stay compared to other cities and states. I love staying in SW Atlanta, my wife and I stay on Fairburn rd near Cascade and we've never had an issue.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

And then you have Langston Hughes, which has a campus as nice as Milton, Alpharetta or Johns Creek and is surrounded by real estate nearly as exclusive (Chattahochee Hills). Yet nearly the entire student body is made up of poor black kids bused down from apartment complexes in Union City.

Where do the local kids who are districted to Langston Hughes go to school?

[PKCorey]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

There are many white families living in the Chattahoochee Hills area of South Fulton but you will be hard pressed to find ONE white child enrolled in a public school down there. It is simply not an option.

If someone can please explain to me why majority black schools have to be so horrible, I'd really like to hear it.

They are 12 white students at Palmetto Elementary.

The main issue is poverty. The middle class parents send their children to private schools so instead of having diversity in income population, you have an overwhelming population of poor/transient students who usually have deficients that are missed or neglected in the support services needed to help them.

Same issues that impact the schools in the Sandy Springs area. Upper middle class whites don't want to send their children to school with the apartment kids and the results are most of the elementary schools in the Sandy Spring area are terrible compared to the income of the area.

Let's be real though. Chattahoochee Hills has 2400-2600 people. Palmetto has about the same, give or take. Union City is almost 10 times bigger so no matter what, whites would be in the minority.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by PKCorey

Upper middle class whites don't want to send their children to school with the apartment kids and the results are most of the elementary schools in the Sandy Spring area are terrible compared to the income of the area.

You have to wonder if anybody has thought about the long term impact of all this gung-ho apartment building of the last few years. Historically apartments in Atlanta have not fared well over time.

What will happen to the schools once the millennials age out in a few years? And if the schools aren't good, that has a huge ripple effect.

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by arjay57

You have to wonder if anybody has thought about the long term impact of all this gung-ho apartment building of the last few years. Historically apartments in Atlanta have not fared well over time.

What will happen to the schools once the millennials age out in a few years? And if the schools aren't good, that has a huge ripple effect.

Which is the exact reason why Fayette County has so little rental property, and why the schools are so good. It's amazing how simple this all is ... And yet people still post threads like this asking "why?"

[AcidSnake]

To me it's a culturally weakened and scared black middle class that's too afraid to buck the powers-that-be that is preventing real education reform. All reaction and no proaction.

All these Black Board of Education members and black superintendents in this country...and not one of these integrated scaredy cats got the imagination, the independence, and the guts...to fight for and adopt an alternative model of educating our children.

The black middle class is tissue paper-weak right now. Content with merely having a job, a house, a car, and flossin'.

[JoeTarheel]

Originally Posted by Larry X

The reason is simple, most white folk don't want to live around a lot of black people no matter how good/bad the schools/areas are plain & simple. This will never change, it's 2015 and we are still seeing white flight in some suburbs now. Heck I don't mind, Georgia is one of the few places where blacks have very nice areas to stay compared to other cities and states. I love staying in SW Atlanta, my wife and I stay on Fairburn rd near Cascade and we've never had an issue.

I would love to see some statistics on where "most white folk" want to live. I live in East Point (predominately black) and have lots of white neighbors on my street and in my neighborhood. I'm not sure anyone can effectively speak for most people on most subjects, but I like to think it's the other way around. Most people in this day and age don't care what color their neighbors are.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by AcidSnake

All these Black Board of Education members and black superintendents in this country...and not one of these integrated scaredy cats got the imagination, the independence, and the guts...to fight for and adopt an alternative model of educating our children.

That would actually require them to give a crap about more than their jobs/salaries.

[demonta4]

Originally Posted by Larry X

The reason is simple, most white folk don't want to live around a lot of black people no matter how good/bad the schools/areas are plain & simple. This will never change, it's 2015 and we are still seeing white flight in some suburbs now. Heck I don't mind, Georgia is one of the few places where blacks have very nice areas to stay compared to other cities and states. I love staying in SW Atlanta, my wife and I stay on Fairburn rd near Cascade and we've never had an issue.

That's not always true, look at Forest Park's Demographics

Black alone - 6,808 (36.9%)
Hispanic - 6,343 (34.3%)
White alone - 3,555 (19.2%)
Asian alone - 1,448 (7.8%)
Two or more races - 250 (1.4%)
Other race alone - 34 (0.2%)
American Indian alone - 23 (0.1%)
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone - 7 (0.04%)


Read more: http://www.city-data.com/city/Forest...#ixzz3bGwmxOwW

[demonta4]

How can Clayton be diverse with some of the same problems Fulton and Dekalb have?