Comments on: Politicians’ Version of School Choice is Based on Everything Except What Really Matters

By: Independent Conservative

Independent Conservative — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:02:08 +0000

I’ve Got Issues With the President’s State of the Union Address

As if there has not already been enough analysis of this speech, now here I come with my 2 cents . You can get the full transcript and video of the 2006 State of the Union Address here.
There were a number of good things that the President said la…

By: AirborneVet

AirborneVet — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:46:07 +0000

Yes, I remember the redistricting in GA. I lived in Savannah and had just graduated when the state announced the “magnet school program”. I lived not even 1 mile from my high school and if I had not graduated that year (1991), I would have been shipped all the way downtown to Beach High school the next year. It made no sense to me. Until the magnet program, my high school was the best public high school in the city. Unfortunately now, when I am in Savannah visiting, I see graffitti, metal detectors at the doors and armed guards. I also read how my old school is now the lowest ranking in the city (possibly the county) and, according to the magnet program, is the “nothing” school. You see, each school became goal-oriented for the magnet program. It was the only way the state could justify the program. One school would be designated as college prep, another would be a school of the arts and so on. My old school was designated as the nothing school. No goals, nothing special. No advanced placement programs anymore, no arts or theatre program, no cool science or debate teams- nothing.

By: Ron_B

Ron_B — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:02:28 +0000

The sad part about all of this is that the long used excuse about the gap in resources and facilities between “inner city” (read Black) and “suburban” (read White) schools was the key problem in the performance gap between the race.

We now see the SAME SCHOOL SYSTEM and a brand new school being built. The visionless Black leaders fear a new Black majority school regardless of the amount quality of the facilities.

THIS IS AN ISSUE OF CULTURE and how this culture is translated into the classroom. Instead of addressing the culture of the acceptance of low academic performance among Black people your friend Rep. Morgan chooses to make this a race issue. Her argument can be classified as her grabbing onto the leg of the White community saying “No! No! No! Please don’t leave us to ourselves…..you know what is going to happen if you leave us along!)