NJ School Segregation Lawsuit does not go the way the plaintiffs hoped

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-12-10T12:00:40.071Z

bigtwnvin:

So what is the proposed solution?
Bus minority children to whiter schools for some racial parity?
The taxpayers should be overjoyed, the school district or whoever does the transportation will be have to acquire additional equipment and drivers. Good luck with that, there’s a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers now!
Flooding schools with Joey’s illegal invaders will diminish what standards even exist and send them into the crapper. Teachers are struggling now as it is with students who are in classes and they can’t speak English or do basic math or reading. I’m not sure rezoning low income housing into affluent neighborhoods is a good idea.

Well the parties have entered the Remediation phase with the hope of finding an amicable “solution” (whatever that’s supposed to mean):

Mediate.com

NJ officials and plaintiffs in landmark school segregation case begin mediation

Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration has begun mediation discussions with a coalition of New Jersey nonprofits that sued the state alleging pervasive de facto segregation across the state’s public schools. No details were divulged on what the parties...

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I’m sure one the agreed on solutions will be the development of so-called “magnet” schools, which can be situated in locations accessible to students from a number of different towns. The problem will be the cost. The other solution will be to bus kids to different schools based on race, which will face resistance, further lawsuits and logistical issues. Regarding logistics you could be talking about some kids sitting on buses for 2-3 hours so they can get bused across multiple towns.

Smyrna · 2023-12-10T12:08:25.837Z

News flash…the larger problem that needs to be addressed are the parents of the children who are failing in school. They are not doing their job in guiding their children into adulthood along the path of education. Do you inspect their homework to see that it’s done? Do you attend the Parent/Teacher Conference day and converse with the teachers working with your child to see if they have any complaints or recommendations? Until this is resolved…the only thing bussing these kids to other schools will do, is bring down the grades of those children do to the disruption these educationally, failing children bring with them.

Oh…but “we” can’t talk about this subject. That’s waaaaacism.

WuWei · 2023-12-10T12:12:28.126Z

The state raises those children.

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-12-10T12:14:04.986Z

Liberty323:

So they want bussing. Aren’t they terrified of all the “racists” in the suburbs? I mean, that’s practically Klan country. Seriously though, this will just make the number of private and homeschooled students go way up.

From the first link:

In the 674 public school districts serving 1.3 million students, about 585,000 Black and Latino students attend public schools with student populations that are more than 75% non-white, the lawsuit says, citing 2017 data. More than half of those students attend schools that are more than 90% non-white.

This should be a dream scenario for todays libs.

Smyrna · 2023-12-10T12:14:05.199Z

WuWei:

The state raises those children.

Then instead of supporting legalized child abuse, the answer is to remove one testicle and one ovary of each failing parent. Then…although “we” haven’t fixed the problem, it can not exacerbate.

Although this can not be done, it really is the best answer…for the well being of our nation’s children.

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-12-10T12:20:51.919Z

WuWei:

The state raises those children.

Exactly. 70% of black children and over 50% of Latino children come from single parent households and everyone of them live off of various forms of public assistance.

Ben_Natuf · 2023-12-10T12:25:42.648Z

you should just stop any pretense of being conservative. This is exactly the leftist scheme that the Obama administration was doing.

https://www.investors.com/politics/policy-analysis/obama-hud-fair-housing-rules-mandates-neighborhood-diversity/

Ben_Natuf · 2023-12-10T12:34:55.608Z

Safiel:

Zoning reform is not a liberal versus conservative issue.

it is the way obama tried to force it, which is exactly what you’re advocating.

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-12-10T13:52:47.534Z

Smyrna:

News flash…the larger problem that needs to be addressed are the parents of the children who are failing in school. They are not doing their job in guiding their children into adulthood along the path of education. Do you inspect their homework to see that it’s done? Do you attend the Parent/Teacher Conference day and converse with the teachers working with your child to see if they have any complaints or recommendations? Until this is resolved…the only thing bussing these kids to other schools will do, is bring down the grades of those children do to the disruption these educationally, failing children bring with them.

Lousy parents create lousy children and lousy children make lousy students and lousy students make lousy schools. US schools are in decline and will continue on that trajectory as more and more US children are born to single mothers along with the flooding of the nation with the world’s poverty and problems.

WuWei · 2023-12-10T14:00:35.223Z

Are you making a case for abortion?

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-12-10T14:05:07.952Z

WuWei:

Are you making a case for abortion?

If I remember correctly, you and I have pretty much identical views on abortion. There’s the moral issue, but then there’s the practical reality that we learned through history.

WuWei · 2023-12-10T14:06:47.636Z

Not my view.

e7alr · 2023-12-10T14:34:39.791Z

Abortion comes after the fact. His suggestion seems to be aimed at a before the fact response.

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-12-10T14:43:46.540Z

WuWei:

Are you making a case for abortion?

All I’m doing is stating facts. Children born to two parent married homes with economic stability make better students, and if that continues to decline the schools will also.

WuWei · 2023-12-10T14:48:55.678Z

And if abortion is legal, will there be fewer single mothers?

Eagle-Keeper · 2023-12-10T14:59:33.504Z

WuWei:

And if abortion is legal, will there be fewer single mothers?

Two responses. First, the thread is not about abortion. Second, abortion is legal in NJ so clearly it has nothing to do with the inability for these single mothers to get an abortion if that’s their wish.

WuWei · 2023-12-10T15:16:08.636Z

I understand.

e7alr · 2023-12-10T18:12:11.170Z

As is usual for the times, a racial lens, rather than a socio-economic lens was used define the issue.

tnt · 2023-12-10T18:52:35.702Z

Safiel:

That depends on the specifics of the area and the mechanics can be different.

For example. Most cities have large swaths of R-1 zoning (standard single family homes on around a quarter acre of land).

Break up some of that unused zoning area. Leave some as R-1 but change some of that to medium density (small apartment buildings). Create some areas of low income R-1. This can be done by reducing required lot sizes, required structure size, eliminating requirements for off street parking (i.e. no garage, no carport, no driveway). Smaller, cheaper, affordable starter homes are the result and would be in proximity to higher income neighborhoods and would share the same schools.

This is the direction our town is going. there is a lot of pushback and some - imo - legit questions about it producing the expected results. But our town is an anomaly in terms of real estate valuations, which might change the calculus.

tnt · 2023-12-10T18:55:30.224Z

Safiel:

Even Florida has enacted a version of Statewide zoning reform and many other Republican States are exploring measures, as well as Democratic States.

Look at DeSantis go!