I was in the same situation as a sixth grader in Orlando, when the city was being dragged kicking and screaming into education equality. My parents didn't object to black kids bused to our schools, but they didn't want me (and later, my brother) bussed to the crap schools on the other side of town - and Mom knew what they were like because she and Dad were friendly with a middle class black couple in town, and Lyla had told her what the black schools were like.
In retrospect, Mom's & her best friend's position was a bit naive, but they couldn't have realized at the time that educationally impoverished black kids would never have cut it at my school (which, being a school in the South, wasn't superlative even for white kids) but yeah, they would have gotten bullied out the door I think. I don't remember my classmates being particularly racist but our 'hoods were so white literally the only black people they saw were garbagemen.
Mom's radical solution was, "Integrate the neighbourhoods first." Yeah, that went over like a turd in a punch bowl ;)
At this point, education has gotten so bad in America I think the problem isn't, "How to give black kids a good education" but "how to give American kids a good education". Are they even learning anything worthwhile anymore or is it all CRT, howtuhgotrans, how to give a blowjob, etc.?
I was in the same situation as a sixth grader in Orlando, when the city was being dragged kicking and screaming into education equality. My parents didn't object to black kids bused to our schools, but they didn't want me (and later, my brother) bussed to the crap schools on the other side of town - and Mom knew what they were like because she and Dad were friendly with a middle class black couple in town, and Lyla had told her what the black schools were like.
In retrospect, Mom's & her best friend's position was a bit naive, but they couldn't have realized at the time that educationally impoverished black kids would never have cut it at my school (which, being a school in the South, wasn't superlative even for white kids) but yeah, they would have gotten bullied out the door I think. I don't remember my classmates being particularly racist but our 'hoods were so white literally the only black people they saw were garbagemen.
Mom's radical solution was, "Integrate the neighbourhoods first." Yeah, that went over like a turd in a punch bowl ;)
At this point, education has gotten so bad in America I think the problem isn't, "How to give black kids a good education" but "how to give American kids a good education". Are they even learning anything worthwhile anymore or is it all CRT, howtuhgotrans, how to give a blowjob, etc.?