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The N&O has a story today sure to spark some debate. The story says that in the past decade, while the overall number of students in Durham Public Schools has been growing, the number of white, non-Hispanic, students enrolled has actually dropped by a third.
My gut feeling is that this is not about color. It's about the quality of education and availability of quality education to all socio-economic levels. If the schools are awesome, people won't pay for private education. I would love to see a different graph based on income levels. Are the poor whites, blacks and hispanics the ones who are staying? Do the wealthier families happen to be more white than black or hispanic?
The only way to fix this is to improve the education system to attract back the wealthier families.
What are they (white folks) voting for? Why aren't non-whites voting for it too?
If there is opportunity for students to leave the poor academic standards and unsafe environments behind they will. If your kids are part of the 19% white one's who have not left yet what are you waiting for?
The only way to get white families to leave their kids in substandard schools is to force them. Look at schools in the Northeast of the country. New York state has the most segregated schools in the country.
I'd be interested to see how many white kids are now in Durham area charter schools. Durham has quite a few.
The article eludes to it being a lot. Of my coworkers that had school-aged children, all of them (of various races) have their kids in charter schools or the Durham arts school. It would be nice if this article gave more numbers to paint a more complete picture of what's going on in the county.
The article eludes to it being a lot. Of my coworkers that had school-aged children, all of them (of various races) have their kids in charter schools or the Durham arts school. It would be nice if this article gave more numbers to paint a more complete picture of what's going on in the county.
Yeah, I thought the same thing about the article needing more overall stats. It may say more about the state of Durham schools. The graph shows they only added ~2000 total students over a ten yr period. Contrast that with the growth Wake or Orange county schools have seen over ten yrs.
White student enrollment is dropping in school districts almost everywhere. It isn't as much "white flight" as it is "low white birthrate". I bet if you look at the numbers even for fast-growing Wake County...you'd find that the white student population hasn't grown at nearly the rate that the district has grown overall and that the proportion of white students has dropped significantly in the past 10 years.
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