Cobb

Lord, fix that dynamic sidebar size. Your blog content is squeezed into two colum inches. That's Firefox...maybe it works in Explorer.

I use Firefox and the the site has looked fine for at least the last several days.

i find your site to be very racist starting with your header Black & Republican. it would be hell if a white man said WHITE & DEM. you and others would yell racism!

CALLING ALL BLACKS!!! REJECT YOUR SO CALLED LEADERS!

COBB why do you site jews in your header commete that is racist and this site will be uder investagation of racism!

The magic has never been in sitting next to white kids... Poor areas have low tax revenues, smaller budgets, less money to offer teachers, etc...and worse schools...independent of race.

BTW...anyone know how trackback works? ;)

Mike I think you ought to upgrade to a Pentium. While you're at it, investigate this.

http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/index.htm

Yeah, it's great, but all of the kids in Raleigh ride a bus to school, and many kids have been to as many as 4 different elementary schools, and a couple each of high schools and middle schools by the time they graduate because every year the population shifts because the city is growing and they redistrict the schools every year. It's a real pain in the ass and it leads to situations like what happened last year when it snowed and kids had to spend the night at school because the busses were stuck in traffic for 10 hours!

Yeah I heard about that, it sounds like a lousy deal for people whose kids don't need the help.

I've always been a proponent of bussing teachers and not kids. That would be the first thing I'd try. I think the right mix of teachers could create a spirit of achievment in any school. However I know the difference that parental involvement makes. There is a great deal to be said about the power of soccer moms and power moms. That means a community where dad makes enough money for mom not to have to work. But you're not likely to shift those economics soon enough for it to make a difference for kids who don't have that kind of support, and nobody can agree on a new model of schooling.

Bussing is a cheap alternative and it works. Damned inconvenient though.

yea like i said your a racist. and whites and others are going to stand up to you and your naacp provit.
hand outs are done we are sick of it. look at nola the hold stat is nothing but welfair hand outs.

The ironic thing is that here in Omaha, they are fighting against a plan that would unite suburban schools and urban schools under one district.

Busing in Los Angeles in the 1970's was voluntary, and it meant sending black students from the city's south west and south central communities first to the west side, then to the beach, then to the valley.

From the seventh to ninth grade, my brothers and I caught a bus from the Crenshaw District (View Park to be exact) to Palms Jr. High in West LA, and from tenth through twelfth grade to Palisades High near the beach. It was an experience, but I did not want my children bussed that far from home. I raised my kids in much smaller cities than LA, and they went to schools in the neighborhood.

Oh yeah I know that story. My family did the same thing. I've been pretty mad about it, and I finally came to the realization, after a couple years of doing the race man thing, that the nation is not interested in making the ghetto a better place.

What would be an interesting survey would be to look at towns like those in the Inland Empire and see how those public schools rate as compared to ghetto schools and those in the more affluent suburbs. I think you'll find that money changes everything - because it's all about children gaining some appreciation for the prospects they would have as adults in terms of the skills they are acquiring in school. It's a class and socialization issue that's going to be better through straight bussing but not as good as living in the target neighborhoods.

Dude, there's a problem with the article....

Daily Howler sez it's got some bad stats on it. My leftist friend agrees; he says there's a problem with the testing regime, too, although I don't think he's used to metrics being necessary like they are in manufacturing.

Damn. That's what I get for skimming. Good thing this myth is busted, because I understand the pain of sending kids halfway around creation.

COBB
why did you delet my post? is it because your a racist?

Mike, I haven't deleted any of your messages, but I do wish you'd go away. You are a troll by definition, without a real name, email address or website. Be happy I haven't erased you.