Be it a neighborhood, city, county or State, lefty libs move away from the ruin they created and leave a mess behind, then move on to do it all over again. For example, the Clinton's, Carter's nor, ironically, the Obama's daughters didn't go to local schools heavily populated with minorities. I know, I know, President's offspring need special security and attention, but they don't have to go to a private, exclusive Quaker School. The D.C. school district could make for an exemplary and safe-secure charter school as should be the entire district since it wastes nearly twice as much as any other public school, per pupil, in the County (a few exceptions noted in similar 'minority-majority' cities).
Left wing Boston fought School Busing hammer and tong for years, violently at times.
Barbara Boxer moved out of lefty New York to a then, moderately conservative California, to really screw it up with her same socialist politics she moved away from, etc... m/r
Brooklyn Public School Battle: Progressives Are Opposing Integration | National Review Online
by REIHAN SALAM September 24, 2015
Progressive parents fight integration in their children’s public schools. I live in a small slice of Brooklyn wedged between Brooklyn Heights, one of New York’s most prosperous neighborhoods, Dumbo, a relatively new neighborhood that is essentially a forest of condominiums catering to financiers, techies, and “creative professionals,” and Farragut Houses, a sprawling public-housing complex that borders the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Though you won’t find gated communities in this part of Brooklyn, you will find buildings with doormen, which is of course a quite similar phenomenon. The retail establishments catering to affluent professionals don’t formally exclude poor residents, but their high prices do the work of explaining who is welcome and who is not. Very rich people and very poor people live side by side in this part of Brooklyn, yet their lives rarely intersect. Rich Brooklynites and poor Brooklynites do, however, share their local public schools. And as you can imagine, not all of Brooklyn’s bourgeois parents are thrilled about this fact.
Kate Taylor of the New York Times has written a fascinating report on a school rezoning in my part of town. Basically, Public School 8 in Brooklyn Heights is massively oversubscribed while Public School 307 in Vinegar Hill, right by the Farragut Houses, is undersubscribed. The city has thus proposed shifting Dumbo families from P.S. 8 to P.S. 307, which seems sensible enough. So why are parents in Dumbo so outraged? Taylor explains:
P.S. 307’s population is 90 percent black and Hispanic, and 90 percent of the students’ families receive some form of public assistance. Its state test scores, while below the citywide averages, are closer to average for black and Hispanic students, with 20 percent of its students passing the math tests and 12 percent passing the reading tests this past year. At P.S. 8, whose population is 59 percent white, with only 15 percent receiving assistance, scores are considerably above the city averages. Almost two-thirds of its students passed each test.Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424550/in-brooklyn-public-schools-progressives-opposing-integration-reihan-salam
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