Tea Baggers fight to abolish school integration

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politics, integration, school, North Carolina, tea party, sarah palinOne of the most dangerous organizations to come out of the election of Barack Obama is the Tea Party.  It is extreme and hypocritical in the most extraordinary sense.  Do you remember the pictures of the seniors screeching at their representatives to keep government out of their health care, while all the while collecting Medicare, a government run program?

The sad fact is that the mainstream Republican politicians are scared to death of them.  Clearly they overestimate their numbers, although the mid-term elections demonstrated the need to be cautious in underestimating their power and their leaders, e.g. Sarah Palin, et al.

Now, the Tea Baggers are at it again.  They are wanting to do away with one of the nation’s most progressive school integration programs and they just might pull it off.  Here is the full story edited from The Washington Post:

Tea party groups have succeeded in reversing nationally praised school integration policies in Raleigh, North Carolina, decrying the longstanding system as one of social engineering.

The Washington Post reports that tea party pressure has motivated Wake County School District’s largely Republican school board to abolish policies the newspaper describes as “one of the nation’s most celebrated integration efforts.”

“Say no to the social engineers!” was one of their slogans.

The Post hails the existing system as a “rarity,” noting that some of the county’s “best, most diverse schools are in the poorest sections of this capital city. And its suburban schools, rather than being exclusive enclaves, include children whose parents cannot afford a house in the neighborhood.”

The school board is instead considering a system in which poor children are relegated to low-income neighborhood schools, moving away from its current policies where most schools have students from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds.

Critics have sharply denounced the new plans as a form of segregation, noting that poorer children are often minorities and arguing that the new tea party-backed ideas will lead to a new cycle of poverty for the less fortunate.

Chief among them is the NAACP, which has slammed the effort as discriminatory and a new type of racial segregation, and has filed a civil rights complaint in an effort to protect hundreds of students from having to transfer out of their schools.

“So far, all the chatter we heard from tea partyers has not manifested in actually putting in place retrograde policies,” NAACP president Ben Jealous told the Post. “But this is one place where they have literally attempted to turn back the clock.”

Proponents of the new policies note that they do not violate the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 case, “Brown v. Board of Education,” which banned racial segregation, arguing that the proposed new policies are based on non-racial factors.

The move reflects the tea party’s first successes at influencing school board policies in a way that will inevitably affect the sociocultural makeup of schools.

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Jess
13 years ago

Figures that the Koch brothers were behind this action. It appears the less educated you are, the more apt you are to vote in idiots to seats of power and responsibility. To add insult to injury, here is another link I had been sent today on this very story from an online buddy of mine in Raleigh.

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/wake-superintendent-anthony-tatas-dubious-qualifications/Content?oid=1933205

Damn, it seems as if the baggers want to take us back to the good old days of the 1850s or something. Like I say, me and the baby Jesus, seriously weeping tonight with all the mind numbing bullshit from the right. Bad Jess will most probably be here for a while, because good Jess is tired of being nice to these assclowns.

lazersedge
13 years ago

Gee Mike, ya think we could have race riots again. Those were so much fun. These Tea Baggers weren’t around in those days and missed all of that fun. They will really get a kick out of it. They think THEY can stir up some SH*T. They seen nothing yet. Bring back the 60’s.

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