[basehead617]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

Sounds like your friend has personal beef with the district that's not common amongst most. Every person I know who has experience with Newtown and similar surrounding districts have nothing but great things to say about it.

Kind of getting off topic here but wasn't there a whole thread a couple years ago about a rash of drug deaths at the high school there?

My school had zero drug deaths so it's not like it's something that happens everywhere.

[HeadedWest]

Originally Posted by BicoastalAnn

Are you talking about the measures taken to desegregate? If so I think that's a whole different issue... messy problem (segregation), really messy solutions (desegregation). I don't see why it would still be necessary to do that today.

It would still be a priority today, and CT school districts are still de facto segregated.. The theory is actually quite racist: that minorities cannot succeed unless they are amid a sufficient fraction of whites.

[BicoastalAnn]

Originally Posted by HeadedWest

It would still be a priority today, and CT school districts are still de facto segregated.. The theory is actually quite racist: that minorities cannot succeed unless they are amid a sufficient fraction of whites.

I just don't see this happening in reality. De facto segregated is very different than segregated by design. Nearly all my friends were bused/lived outside the district in all my years of schooling, and in that time and in the decade plus since, I have never heard of any movement to actually force kids into WORSE schools (of any race) against the parents' wishes. Not something to fear IMO.

No one benefits in that scenario, so who would champion it? If you're busing inner city kids into good schools, then at least 1 group benefits - those kids would get a better education. Not saying that's right or wrong, but obviously there's a constituent there that would champion the policy. No one benefits in the reverse situation.

[dazzleman]

Originally Posted by BicoastalAnn

Does this actually happen though? I don't see a single reason why this would or should happen, and if it does then I'm appalled. I can see the logic in bussing inner city kids to good schools - that brings them something positive that they wouldn't be able to get otherwise. Why would someone bus suburban kids into inner city schools...? It doesn't seem like the logical step at all to me.

For large scale forced integration, it would be necessary to bring suburban kids into the city, since that would make room for city kids in the suburbs.

Personally, I don't believe in forced busing. It has never worked anywhere it has been tried, despite what some people say.

[BicoastalAnn]

Here, I did some quick research -

The 1974 case of Milliken v. Bradley addressed the issue of “white flight” to the suburbs by suggesting that one remedy would be to bus suburban children into the inner city schools in which whites were the minority. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that suburban students could not be used to desegregate inner city schools.

Source: https://education.uslegal.com/desegr...-white-flight/

[BicoastalAnn]

Originally Posted by dazzleman

For large scale forced integration, it would be necessary to bring suburban kids into the city, since that would make room for city kids in the suburbs.

Personally, I don't believe in forced busing. It has never worked anywhere it has been tried, despite what some people say.

Is forced busing done today at all? Why is this still a concern? I can't imagine it would pass any sort of political hurdle... people get up in arms today if you so much as force their kids to go to the next school over due to overcrowding (even if the school is just as good).

[HeadedWest]

Originally Posted by BicoastalAnn

Here, I did some quick research -

The 1974 case of Milliken v. Bradley addressed the issue of “white flight” to the suburbs by suggesting that one remedy would be to bus suburban children into the inner city schools in which whites were the minority. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that suburban students could not be used to desegregate inner city schools.

Source: https://education.uslegal.com/desegr...-white-flight/

It was not done across school district boundaries, but it was done within cities.

[Raider111]

Originally Posted by beerisgood02

Do you know how many people will move away from Riverside, OG, Darien, Westport, NC to Bronxville and Scarsdale?

The state will never do this.

State doesn't care.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by basehead617

Kind of getting off topic here but wasn't there a whole thread a couple years ago about a rash of drug deaths at the high school there?

My school had zero drug deaths so it's not like it's something that happens everywhere.

I know what HS you went to from past posts and can tell you, that's not true. Your HS has as much opiate addicts as neighboring districts.

[beerisgood02]

Originally Posted by Raider111

State doesn't care.

Most of their taxes comes from those towns. They lean against us for most of the burden.
They certainly would care.