The Omaha school district has decided to segregate its schools into one predominately white, one black, and one hispanic school. Really - no word of a lie. They argue that this will (allegedly) give minorities control over their respective schools, so they don't get "shortchanged" in favour of white kids. Apparently, because they don't offer busing anymore to encourage integration, each neighborhood essentially has it's own school anyways. You know, the rich neighborhood has the white school, the poor neighborhoods have the black and hispanic schools!
I don't quite understand the arguement that by segregating, the problems of poor quality teaching ( or too few teachers ) and no resources will be rectified. They're saying that by having control of their own resources, minorities will be able to better apply them. That doesn't work for me. If I have control of my 5 dollars or not, it's still only 5 dollars I can spend. (Which I'm sure is actually a realistic operating budget.) Won't it actually make the problem worse? If the majority of income goes to white people, who have the ability to put more money into the school, and you put all the white people together, you have a pretty wealthy school. In a district where 46% of the population is white, the remainder of the "lower income" minorities... get what, 5 dollars?
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