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New York City public schools will be allowed to reserve nearly 60% of seats for "disadvantaged" and "non-English speaking" children it was announced Friday by the de Boob administration. The push is to bust up public schools seen as "segregated".
Seems all the schools selected are on the fringe of gentrification. So in actuality they've only recently or about to be unsegregated by the gentrifiers.
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Forced integration will not solve the problem but instead will probably breed new ones.
You can shake a bottle of water/oil mix as hard as you can to achieve a superficially homogeneous mixture. But once you withdraw the external forces, the segregation occurs by default.
Compromised politicians like debalsio are always too quick to observe the segregation by skin colors and blame skin pigmentation for everthing. They fail to understand that below the skin pigmentation underlies oil-water like differences in cultures, values, and traditions etc that prevent different groups from blending smoothly together. In many monoracial European and Asian nations, internal segregation is abundant but has no racism attached. In contrast, you see happy interracial couples, social groups that form spontaneously once the involved individuals have reached common values and goals in life. I am against and will fight all forms of discrimination, but acting blindly on the wrong aspect of the problem will do more harm than good.
Actually Southern public schools in school districts are much less segregated than NYC public schools. NYC because of it's school district zoning ended up becoming the among the most segregated in the nation. But Mayor Bloomberg got rid of local school boards and placed the schools directly up under mayoral control. Meaning this was going to happen eventually as a result.
Residential segregation in NYC in the past happened in part due to discrimination in housing and in jobs. But with gentrification and other demographics changes certain neighborhoods got integrated and this was always going to effect the demographics of schools.
Many wealthy Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens neighborhoods have well off people living across the street from housing projects, and now their kids will be going to the same public schools.
Actually Southern public schools in school districts are much less segregated than NYC public schools. NYC because of it's school district zoning ended up becoming the among the most segregated in the nation. But Mayor Bloomberg got rid of local school boards and placed the schools directly up under mayoral control. Meaning this was going to happen eventually as a result.
Residential segregation in NYC in the past happened in part due to discrimination in housing and in jobs. But with gentrification and other demographics changes certain neighborhoods got integrated and this was always going to effect the demographics of schools.
Many wealthy Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens neighborhoods have well off people living across the street from housing projects, and now their kids will be going to the same public schools.
This is very true. According to the history books. Desegregation was meant for the South. But on the flipside it was kept alive in the North for decades on end. Its been 60 years since landmark case Brown V Board of Education,, and inequality in public schools are still going on!
Plenty of people in wealthy neighborhoods of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens send their kids to either private, parochial and if not magnet schools.
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