Charter Schools: Duncan's Laboratories of Resegregation

[tonysam]

Schools Matter:

Not every charter is all African-American or Hispanic with non-stop test prep, penal pedagogy, and hours that run from 7:30 to 5PM. Some, especially in the South and the West, are all white, offer karate and foreign languages, embrace hands-on learning, and run from 8AM to 2:45, except on Monday when they close at 12:45.

Just like York Preparatory Academy just outside Rock Hill, SC, which serves the white families of the new high end Gates subdivision, where lot prices start near $74,000. With an all-white Board, it's just like schools in the South used to be, back when celebrating Confederate History Month was not such a big deal.

Schools Matter


Excerpt from link mentioned in above post:

Local black leaders are concerned that York Preparatory Academy, the first charter school in York County open to any student, will be nearly all white.

The academy's organizers are still compiling information about the student body's demographics. But the several hundred people who attended the school's recent enrollment lottery were mostly white, as was the crowd of several hundred who attended a recent board meeting.

The school's governing board of seven members is all white.

Melvin Poole, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Rock Hill chapter, sees the makings of a segregated school.

"I don't think they made a real effort to get blacks in," Poole said. "I think this is just a cover-up way to get back to segregated schools ... creating a school of elites on the taxpayer's dime."

The Herald

We're heading back to pre-Brown v. Board of Education.

[mzteris]

1. if they are deliberately discriminating -

they'll be closed. Nice thing about Charters. They have rules to follow. If they aren't followed, they lose the charter. End of story.

If they're discriminating - close them.

[Dinger]

4. Yeah, They Have Different Rules That Public Schools

Doesn't mean shit. Nice little arrangement they have though.

[Hannah Bell]

6. evidence shows charter schools are more segregated than public schools.

contra your talking points.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/02/04/ucla-charter-study/

[Catshrink]

8. Those who wanted to resegregate couldn't get their vouchers

so voila! they came up with the charter scheme.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Bingo!

That's it exactly.

[mzteris]

2. can we see the information you found on

traditional public schools that are de-facto segregated? What are the percentages, do you think?

[Hannah Bell]

7. gee, you google well when searching for cut-&-paste PR points...

Study: Charter schools promote segregation, perform worse than traditional schools
by Tom Weber, Minnesota Public Radio
November 26, 2008

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/25/charter_schools_study/

Escalating Evidence on Charter Segregation February 9, 2010 On heels of UCLA study, new study finds charter schools operated by corporations are segregated by race, income, disability and language

http://dailycensored.com/2010/02/11/charter-schools-segregate-but-more-than-this-they-also-feed-into-societal-dis-association-disunity-and-work-to-vitiate-the-values-we-need-to-build-a-coherent-movement-to-challenge-corporatocracy/

By Nick Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Seven out of 10 black charter school students are on campuses with extremely few white students, according to a new study of enrollment trends that shows the independent public schools are less racially diverse than their traditional counterparts.

[Catshrink]

9. Hey, even GWB knew how to use the Google.

[mzteris]

11. it just seems that some people can only "google"

what they want to believe anyway.

Point being - these biased postings do nothing towards furthering the WHOLE truth. Don't you want the WHOLE truth are are you afraid of it?

[Hannah Bell]

12. "you can't handle the truth"

and it ain't found on any gates/broad-funded website.

[Catshrink]

13. Is this one of those

"don't confuse my opinion with facts" kind of thing? Again?

[Dinger]

3. arne's elixir: separate and unequal

fuck him.

[Solly Mack]

5. ....

Segregation Academies and Other History Stuff
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8049648


Just more info on the subject