“SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” EDUCATION for Katrina Evacuees

[Amy6627]

“SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” EDUCATION: The Wall Street Journal reports that Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will ask Congress to waive a federal law that bans educational segregation for homeless children. The Bush administration is arguing, along with states like Utah and Texas, that providing schooling for evacuees – who, in this case, are likened to homeless children – will be disruptive to public school systems, so they want to have sound legal backing for creating separate educational facilities for the 372,000 schoolchildren displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The State of Mississippi is opposed to waiving the Act because it argues the law helps evacuees enroll in schools without red tape.

[OneBlueSky]

1. gee . . . Katrina is giving BushCo ALL kinds of opportunities . . .

including overturning Brown v. Board of Ed. . . . amazing! . . .

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Next we will hear, we are back to slavery

since these peiople are IDP we cannot pay them, we weill feed them and clothe them but we won't pay them, next you know slave markets are back...

Half jocking but I know some of them will want that

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. Aside from the fact it is defacto segregation

I don't think it is good for either the evacuee kids or the home kids. The home kids need their consciousness raised and the evacuee kids don't need to feel like freaks.

Now, if there were to be an influx of, say, 1,000 kids in my school district I don't see why they couldn't divide it evenly among the 50 schools.

Sounds like what they are trying to do is open a separate facility and that is costly (if it were to be truly equal) as it will need to have a media center, computers, etc.

I have read that some high schools are moving to split schedules.