re: #49 ObserverArt

How would you go about the fix? Keep in mind you are dealing with humans and all their biases. There is inequality baked in.

There it is. For all of my student life in the segregated South, from first grade through high school graduation, I saw the results of “separate but equal.” It was bullshit then. It’s bullshit now. And don’t even get me started on the “Christian academies” that exist all across the South, and other places, to this day, where almost all the black students are athletes who have been imported from as far away as Trinidad or Africa (hello, Evangel High), while an aspiring and smart black kid with an interest in mathematics wouldn’t even be bused in.

I don’t know how to fix it. Nobody does. But a start might be ironclad redistricting that feeds both black and white neighborhoods into the same school, no busing needed. And if necessary build new schools that better fit into the new districts. Reset as needed. And cut all public funding of private “academies.”

Oh well. Maybe in my next reincarnation.