Remember when integrating public schools was considered a key component of improving education for all, particularly for minority students? Then, to what do we attribute the resegregation of schools? A recent
ruling in Mississippi cast light on this situation when Senior Judge Tom S. Lee of the U.S. District Court of Southern Mississippi ruled that Walthall County schools could no longer resegregate by allowing whites to transfer to a predominately-white school nor could they continue to create segregated classrooms within schools. In 2010, are we still under the colossally ignorant belief that education of white students and black students together will somehow be deleterious to whites?
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