hot topic of local debate here in omaha gents.....id be curious as to some outside takes.....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/04/14/omaha.schools.ap/index.html

let er rip folks.....

Doc B...

In the end the only thing that matters is that the students get an education. Integration, or the lack of it isn't the issue. I pulled both of my son's out of public schools because the teachers were just not doing a satisfactory job. It was the hardest decision I had to make for them. Kids need the interaction of other kids. Good and bad, the interaction teaches them to be less socially repressed.

Anyway, if people would concentrate less on the devision of races, and more on the lack of decent teachers, we would be miles ahead.

Arkansas closed every school with an attendance of less than 500 pupils and integrated them into neighboring school districts. The poor kids are bussed sometimes hours before they arrive to school and again to home.

Hours of riding isn't the answer.

/rant

I'm sorry but being open minded is just over rated. People grow up just as close minded in schools that have plenty of diversity. Integration or the lack of it isn't going to alter that. Its education that teaches open minded views.

Thats another concept I cannot agree with. Being equal is a state of mind, not a title you earn by going to a school with many races. If you think you are a social retard, then you are one. If you think your just about right, you'll be that too. Equality is all in how you view life, not how life views you.

Take Snarkpit for example. We have just about as much diversity as you can cram into one place and we still have segregation and close minded topics. No one is guaranteed open mindedness.

I grew up in St. Louis in a school full of blacks and hispanics and Eastern Indians. Then i moved to the ozark to a town with the same population as my old school. I can honestly say that I like blacks and hispanics better when I was not going to school where they had gangs. When i moved to an area with fewer, I appreciated the fact that not all of them were gangsters that beat you and stole your Hostess? Brand Cupcakes. Whereas when i lived in the urban area where there were more of them, I didn't like them at all.

I think that after years of whining about how the school boards and administrators are all white and bigots, this is exactly what they need. This way the hispanic parents can be on the school board that controls the primarily hispanic district so that there can be more emphasis on Spanish and English as a second language. The black parents can govern the board where their kids can speak ebonics, and... well that's not productive. But you'll notice that the districts are PREDOMINANTLY black/hispanic. This means that some white kids are going to go to either school and get the crap beat out of them every day, and they will not recieve a quality education. It's pretty much just splitting the roles of WHO is a minority. But by society's standards that's okay, i guess.

You know, I honestly expected someone to argue my last post.

Either, I finally said something thats agreeable, or, you guys have given up on me.

I hope, I finally said something right. It would be nice for a change.

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Why act surprised? I am an arse, but I am hardly unqualified.

Besides, its about time we had a yin, for all the yangs around here.

/runs

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I just wanted to help.