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Thread ID: 19544 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2005-08-10
2005-08-10 15:58 | User Profile
I've been through Hearne, which is, ironically, home of the "Dixie Cafe" and a pretty good chicken fried steak.
[url]http://www.theeagle.com/stories/080905/schools_20050809043.php[/url]
Hundreds of students who have transferred from Hearne to the Mumford Independent School District will have to go home to reverse an illegal "white flight" trend that has segregated the districts, according to a ruling delivered out of a federal court in Tyler last week.
A Federal court, huh? Who woulda thunk it?
In the 110-page document, Senior U.S. District Court Judge William Wayne Justice described Mumford as maintaining a "pattern of fraudulent conduct" in past years as it solicited transfers from Hearne, increasing its enrollment of white students over a 10-year period by 3,540 percent.
Well, we can't have that! These kids might actually be learning Geometry instead of African History. As we all know, running a gauntlet of groping brown hands between classes teaches agility and stoicism, though of course, they won't know the definition of that latter word any more, vocabulary and English having been replaced by Diversity and Holocaust Studies.
"One of the chief purposes of No. 5281 is to prevent the phenomenon of 'white flight,' i.e., the efforts of white parents to keep their children from attending desegregated schools by transferring them." Justice wrote.
Pull your kids out of the grinning maw of diversity, white parents, and you'll be ordered to toss 'em right back in.
As a result, he wrote, Hearne now is perceived as a black school district, creating negative and unsubstantiated stereotypes concerning the safety of students.
Uh, oookay, but for a really safe school, you need to get your cracker ass to Compton.
According to current Hearne Superintendent David Deaver, the lawsuit was intended as a last resort after first trying to fix the problem through the TEA. Not having read completely through Justice's lengthy document yet, he declined to comment on the specifics of the ruling Monday evening. He did, however, express excitement.
"We know it's the right thing to do," he said.
Whaddaya mean "we" Deaver?
[img]http://www.theeagle.com/schools/photos/081504hearne1.jpg[/img]
I wonder where the illustrious and "excited" Mr. Deaver sends his kids to school?
Anyway, the safety valve on the boiler just got tightened down another turn. Look for this case to become precedent very, very soon, as other districts take notice and lick their chops at the prospect of getting more White kids back in prison, er, I mean "school" to raise test scores, no matter the cost and never mind what it does to the "high achievers" mentioned in the article. Also, look for a boom in the Mumford real estate market and a corresponding slump in Hearne.
That private school tuition or homeschooling may involve a financial sacrifice, but it's stories like these that make me think it's worth every friggin' penny.
2005-08-10 21:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE]From statewide school desegregation (UNITED STATES V. TEXAS) to public school education of undocumented aliens (DOE V. PLYLER) to statewide prison reform (RUIZ V. ESTELLE), Justice wrote opinions requiring wholesale revamping of state institutions. [/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/kemerer.htm[/url]
For those who don't know, Texas had the nation's best prison system until Judge Justice dismantled it. See James Q. Wilson's discussion of the Texas prison system in his book [I]Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It[/I]:
[url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465007856/qid=1123711593/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/002-4105333-0429665[/url]
Justice is one of the most contemptible sell-outs in American history:
[QUOTE]For example, Justice was evidently enamored of the Eastern, liberal establishment, particularly Harvard, where he was a regular participant in the trial advocacy program. He and his wife sent their daughter to boarding school and to an elite Eastern college, and from August 1977 to September 1991, 69% of his clerks came from Harvard, Michigan, Stanford and Yale law schools while only 11% came from Texas law schools (compared to 100% from Texas law schools from July 1968 through July 1977). One of his great joys, he told Kemerer, was sitting by designation on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and he always hoped to be elevated to the U.S. Circuit Court for the Fifth Circuit. But Kemerer does not explore the possible relevance of this character trait to Justice's judicial career. Was Justice writing opinions to please what he perceived to be the liberal establishment?[/QUOTE]
2005-08-10 22:00 | User Profile
He and his wife sent their daughter to boarding school and to an elite Eastern college...
You mean this champion of social engineering didn't put his daughter smack in the middle of one of the experiments?
Color me amazed.
2005-08-10 22:11 | User Profile
[QUOTE]As we all know, running a gauntlet of groping brown hands between classes teaches agility and stoicism, though of course, they won't know the definition of that latter word any more, vocabulary and English having been replaced by Diversity and Holocaust Studies.[/QUOTE]We don't have that in Texas -- yet -- do we? I will litigate that any time, under the Establishment Clause.
2005-08-10 22:49 | User Profile
Beats me. It was sarcasm, though it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the former subjects were deemphasized, if not eliminated, in favor of the latter. I mean if they can get a bunch of well-meaning elementary school kids in Tennessee to fill a boxcar with millions of paperclips, then could anything really surprise any more?
2005-08-10 23:14 | User Profile
I laugh when I see those "Don't Mess With Texas" bumper stickers.