| All cultural aspects aside, it's because we still have a fairly viable de facto segregation going on here. White flight, of course, continues, and when the inner suburbs are finally diverse, the Whites fly further to the outer suburbs and the exurbs. Try New York or Los Angeles, where schools in the city and inner suburbs are literally divided by 90+% of Whites or 90+% of Blacks and Latinos, where Bussing propositions have been consistently shot down for 40 years or more.
Another of NYC's problems, now that we have Bloomberg, is that he's enforcing Bush's "No Child Left Behind" act, which lets people pull their kids out of failing schools (since they wouldn't let him have those vouchers) and let them go into any other schools within the system. Now, for a system of 1.1 million kids when 3/4ths of the schools are failing (thanks to lack of funding because of lack of city funds, something seen over and over all over America since the end of WWII) - imagine the ludicrous overcrowdedness of the "good" ones. There've been nice stories lately about schools needing to split their day four ways to accomodate 6,000+ kids.
As for Southern Blacks, we're talking about public schools in the states with literally the worst records for education in all the country. A no-brainer, there.
As for Asians, most Asians immigrated here after the US policy changed towards "we want people who are skilled (ie: were educated elsewhere)". In other words, they have all the benefits of never having had to start out where Blacks and Latinos are now, mainly because they weren't even allowed in the country in very large numbers until the 60's.
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |