bell hooks is dead wrong on this one. Virtually all the evidence is that desegregation benefited black students and white as well as other races, better scores, higher graduation rates, improvement on every measure overall. And the cure for "internal" segregation of schools is not resegregation in separate schools -- which will typically involve great financial disparities that don't benefit minorities. It involved real and thorough desegregation. "Seperate but equal" was a bad idea the first time around, it hasn't improved with age. No silver lining here. This decision just sucks.
--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> In one way, it's very, very bad. In another way,
> there might be a silver
> lining. Bell Hooks and others have commented that
> integration was, in
> many cases, extremely destructive in that black
> students were shoved
> into remedial classes and a system of segregation
> internal to each
> school was put in place.
>
> We'll see.
>
> Joanna
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >Very depressing. In the flurry of litigation that
> will
> >ensue (as Justice Breyer predicts) as schools
> attempt
> >to align their pupil assignment plans with the new
> >requirements, the Court will move even closer to
> >abolishing consideration of race for remedial
> purposes
> >altogether, cementing residential segregation in
> >place, and involving bad implications for
> affirmative
> >action in other contexts.
> >
> >http://www.nytimes. com/2007/ 06/28/us/
> 28cnd-scotus.
> >html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
> >
> >
> >Use of Race in School Placement Curbed
> >By DAVID STOUT
> >Published: June 28, 2007
> >WASHINGTON, June 28 — In a decision of sweeping
> >importance to educators, parents and schoolchildren
> >across the country, the Supreme Court today sharply
> >limited the ability of school districts to manage
> the
> >racial makeup of the student bodies in their
> schools.
> >
> >Chief Justice John Roberts, wrote the majority's
> >decision. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the dissent.
>
> >
> >The court voted, 5 to 4, to reject diversity plans
> >from Seattle and Louisville, Ky., declaring that
> the
> >districts had failed to meet "their heavy burden"
> of
> >justifying "the extreme means they have chosen —
> >discriminating among individual students based on
> race
> >by relying upon racial classifications in making
> >school assignments. "
> >
> >Today's decision, one of the most important in
> years
> >on the issue of race and education, may not
> entirely
> >eliminate race as a factor in assigning students to
> >different schools. But it will surely prompt many
> >districts to revise programs they already have in
> >place, or go back to the drawing boards in
> designing
> >plans.
> >
> >The majority's rationale relied in part on the
> >historic 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of
> Education
> >that outlawed segregation in public schools — a
> factor
> >that the dissenters on the court found to be a
> cruel
> >irony, and which they objected to in emotional
> terms.
> >
> >Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G.
> >Roberts Jr. said the officials in Seattle and
> >Louisville had failed to show that their plans
> >considered race in the context of a larger
> educational
> >concept, and therefore did not pass muster.
> >
> >"Classifying and assigning schoolchildren according
> to
> >a binary conception of race is an extreme approach
> in
> >light of this court's precedents and the nation's
> >history of using race in public schools, and
> requires
> >more than such an amorphous end to justify it," the
> >chief justice wrote.
> >
> >In the now familiar lineup, Justices Antonin Scalia
> ,
> >Anthony M. Kennedy , Clarence Thomas and Samuel A.
> >Alito Jr. sided with the chief justice on most
> points.
> >
> >"When it comes to using race to assign children to
> >schools, history will be heard," the majority said.
> >
> >The four dissenters wrote, in effect, that the
> >majority was standing history on its head. Justice
> >Stephen G. Breyer said that today's result
> "threatens
> >to substitute for present calm a disruptive round
> of
> >race-related litigation, and it undermines Brown's
> >promise of integrated primary and secondary
> education
> >that local communities have sought to make a
> reality."
> >
> >
> >"This cannot be justified in the name of the Equal
> >Protection Clause," Justice Breyer went on,
> alluding
> >to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution,
> which
> >bars states from denying people "the equal
> protection
> >of the laws."
> >
> >Justice Breyer's dissent was joined by Justices
> David
> >H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and John Paul
> Stevens ,
> >the tribunal's longest-serving member, who wrote a
> >separate dissent that was remarkable for its
> feeling.
> >
> >"While I join Justice Breyer's eloquent and
> >unanswerable dissent in its entirety, it is
> >appropriate to add these words," Justice Stevens
> >wrote. "There is a cruel irony in the chief
> justice's
> >reliance on our decision in Brown vs. Board of
> >Education."
> >
> >Today's ruling breaks faith with the 1954 ruling,
> >Justice Stevens asserted. "It is my firm conviction
> >that no member of the court that I joined in 1975
> >would have agreed with today's decision," he wrote.
> >
> >The decision today runs to 185 pages, including the
> >dissents. It was eagerly awaited by the National
> >School Boards Association and by the Council of the
> >Great City Schools, representing 66 urban
> districts,
> >which had filed briefs on behalf of Seattle and
> >Louisville and had warned of disruption if the
> >justices overturned lower court rulings upholding
> the
> >diversity plans.
> >
> >The Bush administration participated as a "friend
> of
> >the court" on behalf of the plaintiffs who
> challenged
> >the diversity plans.
> >
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