NAAWP SCREAMS STOP the BUS –> BLACKS are not WELCOME in the JEWBURGS!
Tension, venom as students bused into suburban areas outside of St. Louis
Changes reopen old scars, queries on race and class and rightfully so!
Nearly 2,600 BLACK students from unaccredited school districts in St. Louis County are leaving for better-performing WHITE schools after the state Supreme Court upheld such busing.
Beth Gratta has heard the whispers, read the venomous online comments, and watched with dismay as some of her friends and neighbors publicly condemned a plan to bus 475 BLACK students from a distressed urban school district nearly 30 miles away to her children’s better-performing WHITE suburban schools.
Yet Gratta, who teaches in another area district, said she is hopeful that her daughters, ages 7 and 13, and other students will be more accommodating than the parents, politicians, and community leaders who fear that the newcomers will bring increased delinquency, illegal drugs, convicted felons, larger class sizes, and lower test scores.
She will find out soon: Classes began Thursday in the Francis Howell district. Nearly 2,600 BLACK students from unaccredited Normandy and Riverview Gardens districts in St. Louis County are leaving for better-performing schools after a recent Missouri Supreme Court ruling upheld such moves.
‘‘The apprehension is still there,’’ Gratta said. ‘‘A lot of the parents feel their children’s education will somehow be lessened.’’
The wave of BLACK student transfers is opening old wounds and reviving public conversations on race, class, income inequality, and other thorny social problems that many thought — or at least hoped — had been set aside decades ago. Students at the two troubled districts are predominantly BLACK, with the schools and communities they are headed to largely WHITE.
The rancor was on full display in mid-July, when 2,500 people packed the first Francis Howell school board meeting after the district agreed to accept the former Normandy BLACK students. Some spoke obliquely of the ‘‘wrong element.’’ Others were more direct, calling for metal detectors at school entrances and predicting a rash of stabbings and violent fights.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of WHITE PEOPLE calls BULL$HYT!
HONEST, HARD-WORKING SUCESSFUL WHITE PEOPLE moved to the JEWBURGS, so that their OFFSPRING wouldn’t have to suffer the FOILS of INTERGRATED PUBLIC SCHOOLS as they did back in the SIXTIES, SEVENTIES, EIGHTIES and NINTIES!
SIGNIFICANTLY and DISPROPORTIONATELY BLACK STUDENTS DE-VALUE EDUCATION, thereby, making LEARNING in a SAFE, SECURE, DRUG-FREE ENVIORNMENT IMPOSSIBLE!
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http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/0...
Changes reopen old scars, queries on race and class and rightfully so!
Nearly 2,600 BLACK students from unaccredited school districts in St. Louis County are leaving for better-performing WHITE schools after the state Supreme Court upheld such busing.
Beth Gratta has heard the whispers, read the venomous online comments, and watched with dismay as some of her friends and neighbors publicly condemned a plan to bus 475 BLACK students from a distressed urban school district nearly 30 miles away to her children’s better-performing WHITE suburban schools.
Yet Gratta, who teaches in another area district, said she is hopeful that her daughters, ages 7 and 13, and other students will be more accommodating than the parents, politicians, and community leaders who fear that the newcomers will bring increased delinquency, illegal drugs, convicted felons, larger class sizes, and lower test scores.
She will find out soon: Classes began Thursday in the Francis Howell district. Nearly 2,600 BLACK students from unaccredited Normandy and Riverview Gardens districts in St. Louis County are leaving for better-performing schools after a recent Missouri Supreme Court ruling upheld such moves.
‘‘The apprehension is still there,’’ Gratta said. ‘‘A lot of the parents feel their children’s education will somehow be lessened.’’
The wave of BLACK student transfers is opening old wounds and reviving public conversations on race, class, income inequality, and other thorny social problems that many thought — or at least hoped — had been set aside decades ago. Students at the two troubled districts are predominantly BLACK, with the schools and communities they are headed to largely WHITE.
The rancor was on full display in mid-July, when 2,500 people packed the first Francis Howell school board meeting after the district agreed to accept the former Normandy BLACK students. Some spoke obliquely of the ‘‘wrong element.’’ Others were more direct, calling for metal detectors at school entrances and predicting a rash of stabbings and violent fights.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of WHITE PEOPLE calls BULL$HYT!
HONEST, HARD-WORKING SUCESSFUL WHITE PEOPLE moved to the JEWBURGS, so that their OFFSPRING wouldn’t have to suffer the FOILS of INTERGRATED PUBLIC SCHOOLS as they did back in the SIXTIES, SEVENTIES, EIGHTIES and NINTIES!
SIGNIFICANTLY and DISPROPORTIONATELY BLACK STUDENTS DE-VALUE EDUCATION, thereby, making LEARNING in a SAFE, SECURE, DRUG-FREE ENVIORNMENT IMPOSSIBLE!
Find out more:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/0...
