A very odd case. I hope common sense prevails:
Rayville Elementary School in Louisiana received a failing grade this year, based on the state’s School Performance Scores. Under the state’s Public School Choice policy, eligible students in schools flagged as failing and in need of certain levels of improvement can transfer to an “academically acceptable school.”
But an interesting and controversial issue has arisen that may actually challenge equal opportunity intended by the law. In a letter to parents dated July 25, Rayville Elementary school officials inform families of the school’s “F” grade and list two other institutions — with letter grades C- and B — that the parents can choose to transfer their children to. But there’s a disclaimer:
The case in question refers to a 1968 court decision that, in an effort to maintain desegregated schools, prohibits white students from leaving schools if their departure could cause the school to be considered “all-Negro.”
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August 2, 2012 at 6:43 am |
Isn’t that a brilliant piece of politically correct sophistry?! This has happened time and again in certain schools in this country, where non-indigenous parents have taken their children out of a failing school to send them elsewhere, leaving the school having almost an exclusively indigenous enrolment. The school’s failure accelerates because the kind of education that is persisted with is inappropriate for the remaining students.
In one such school, not only were the non-indigenous parents removing their children but also indigenous children were being taken out.
The reason the school fails in the first place may be found in the operation of certain politically correct principles which trump principles of sound education and good order. There is no reason why a certain demographic should be allowed to cause a school to fail but this is what happens.
Basically what happens is that bad behaviour and attitudes are excused in consideration of the ethnicity of most of the perpetrators of the bad behaviour because to deal effectively with the behaviour may be seen to be acting in a racist manner. Such behaviour is left unchecked and the downward spiral continues.
How do i know? I’ve worked under such a regime. I have seen it first hand.