Re: Black School shut down: Is this accidental? (fwd)

    What can be more marginalizing than a one-room schoolhouse! If they need
money, I'm sure the NAACP and NBCF can rustle up some dollars from liberal
foundations.
  I think,I'll look up some local newspaper coverage of this since the CNN
story was structured as a sentimental human interest story. If you want to
make a case (which I would agree with, btw) that Majority Black School
Districts get much less funding due to lower property tax collections, I'd
more than agree. There was a US Supreme Court decision on the
constitionality under the equal protection clause, based on a suit brought
by Chicanos in Texas, on the fiscal imbalance. The Supremes said school
funding should be equalized. How to get it is another question.
                                                Michael Pugliese
                          Michael Pugliese

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Subject: Re: Black School shut down: Is this accidental? (fwd)


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> Micheal, this is another ad hominem which does not even address the issue
> at stake here! Closing down of the school is partly related to racism,
> if not directly, because the school where the African American population
> largely attend can not find enough financial resources to manage the
> budget. Poor folks ended up closing the school not simply because of
> economies of scale, but because they had no other alternative to improve
> their conditions. I am sure the schools in the white population district
> do not have the same problems. White schools receive hell amount of money
> and donations, as well as community support, since students attending
> those schools are predominantly white. Don't you think this has something
> to do with the structural marginalization of the black population, and the
> racialization of poverty that isolate black people from running their own
> communities? How can you seperate race from economies of scale? Don't
> african american people know how to manage their financial affairs?
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> ops, sorry, this topic is not interest to wsn mebers! We need to talk
> about world systemic transformations! Who cares about black schools in the
> South? or anywhere?.. we need to refocus!
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> Mine
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> > Don't you find it ironic someone going to a large, publicly funded
> >state >university system would be nostalgic for a one-room schoolhouse?
> Instead >of >seeing racism at work, automatically, how about considering
> economies of >scale?
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> > And the, "Is this accidental?, " reminds me of the old Stalinists
> >prefacing some diatribe with, "It's no accident that..."
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