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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-28-07 12:55 PM
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Make the court ruling WORK for us
Apparently wealth is now the determant factor in school assignment, so if RACE is O.U.T., then our congress needs to GET BUSY and fulfill the aim of Brown v Board.

EQUALITY IN SCHOOLS..

Republicans know how to tweak rulings, and pick the bones to extract every juicy morsel that THEY like, while discarding the rest.

WE need to start doing the same.

"Settled law" is nothing of the sort..no matter how many times the well-groomed replibot says he/she supports that vague definition. They say it over and over until they are safely ensconced in the briar patch, and then they set out to unravel "settled law" and RE-settle it in THEIR favor.

Brown basically said that black children deserved a quality education, so the ONLY way to approach modern schooling to to assure that ALL schools get EQUAL money..

Wealthy people of ALL colors can (and do) move away from "blight". They leave their poorer brethren in the dust, and now have closed one of the last doors left open a wee bit.

"Magnet" schools and "private" schools have always been about exclusion.

We simply HAVE to start thinking like republicans if we ever plan to accomplish anything .

Making good schools unavailable to poor kids is just a clever way to make it all but impossible for many of them to break the chains of poverty.

if you cannot take the kids to the schools, then you have to take the schools to the kids.

For every NEW school or remodel in a non-poor area, a similar school of similar quality and staffing should be built in poorer areas should be built as well.. Sooner or later, the old run down ones would be a thing of the past.

Sounds like separate, but equal? perhaps..BUT what we have now is separate, unavaliable and unequal. How long should a child have to wait?
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