Madison’s Racial Divide
One has to love the racial tolerance in the People’s Republik.
If he lived anywhere else in Wisconsin, Zachary Walton, 12, wouldn’t have this problem.
If he were black, Asian, Hispanic, or American Indian, Zachary wouldn’t have this problem, either.
But he’s in Madison, where growing numbers of white students are discovering that because of their race, the state’s open enrollment program actually is closed.
“I feel like I’m left out,” said Zachary, who wants to attend a public online school — one like his big brother Daniel, 15, enjoys.
Last week, when most students across Wisconsin began a new school year, Zachary began his second year of home schooling in his family’s East Side apartment.
Madison officials, supported by the state Department of Public Instruction, have ruled that Zachary and 125 other students living in the district must stay put this year in the name of racial integration.
This is not a new story ... a family who tried to open enroll to one of the VCS’s a couple of years ago were denied for the same reason. Madison is one of I believe five districts in the state which has a policy of “racial balance.”
The thing is that the district will lose the student anyway due to enrollment into a private school, homeschooling or moving out of the district, and the “racial balance” still isn’t achieved.
Posted by hsgbdmama on September 08, 2007 at 1733 hrs
Zachary, don’t worry about it. just skip high school entirely and go straight to college. Gen eds are the same crap they make you take in high school anyway and students learn tips and tricks to get good grades and not really do any work. You should graduate with a B.A. by the time you turn 18. So just trudge through the next couple of years and go straight to DeVry, University of Phoenix Online, or whatever. As a home schooler, you may already be on the fast-track to success.
Posted by Josh Schroeder on September 08, 2007 at 2013 hrs
It’s for the best for Zachery. Now he doesn’t have to deal with the gang infested east side schools, especially when gets to high school. East is a gang infested school.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 08, 2007 at 2021 hrs
Art Rainwater is a first-class moron and that district is bought and paid for by MTI. Some of the board members have been trying to restore sanity over the last few years but generally are still outnumbered by union toadies.
That the district’s acronym is MMSD is a pleasant sort of irony.
Posted by Recess Supervisor on September 08, 2007 at 2302 hrs
I’m calling for congressional hearings on the absence of Reville at todays AM game.
The story, “being floated by the MSM”, is that Rev bit one of his handlers and was left outside the stadium.
This obvious roost by the Clintons led to AM playing three overtimes to beat a team it should have handled by three scores.
Damn Billary will do anything to win the California vote, even stooping to the depth’s of banning Reville from the came so that Fresno State (CA) will “defeat” a team from Texas. Those darn Clintons are so crafty.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2007 at 0127 hrs
This is typical racist liberal behavior. Now, not all liberals are racist, but the one’s in the Madison School Districvt are. By having this policy, they are racist against whites. How is this going to help the blacks and hispanics in the district. All this is a feel good situation that will come back and kick them in the butt. When they get sued, and they will, they are going to lose and it will cost them thousands, if not millions of dollars.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2007 at 0153 hrs
This is an issue of “tolerance”? C’mon. Like the policy or hate it, nobody is going to seriously say it’s due to racial intolerance.
Posted by scott on September 09, 2007 at 0935 hrs
Then what is it? He was denied an educational opportunity based on race. So you tell me what that is.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2007 at 1331 hrs
Leave it to scott to defend a racist policy. I guess that is your tolerant liberal in action, defending racism.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2007 at 1503 hrs
Dan, stop being petty and stupid.
Public Service, maybe you’d like to explain how racial intolerance played a role in this kids’ situation. Who was it, exactly, that was feeling hostile and intolerant toward him based on his race? Nobody. Therefore, racial intolerance isn’t a helpful explanation as to what’s going on here - no matter what you think of the policy.
Posted by scott on September 09, 2007 at 1605 hrs
Yet he was denied school as a result of his race?
Posted by edgrimy on September 09, 2007 at 1820 hrs
scott, it was racial intolerance, plain and simple. Why can’t you just say that this wrong and racist? He was denied a transfer because of race. They let other kids go out of district because of their race. It is only about race. They are holding this boy down because of his race. What point don’t you understand?
What if Madison did this only to black kids, would you say it was not a racist move. Would you have the same opinion?Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2007 at 1845 hrs
As a former Madisonian, Madison always provided proof that far-left policies could do nothing to improve the lot of poor African Americans.
Far-left city. Many (most? probably.) African Americans, poor, stuck in the ghetto that is Allied Drive. One would think that if far-left policies worked, that problem would have been solved by now.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2007 at 0839 hrs
Virtual schools and home schooling are disruptive technologies, and they’ll wreak havoc when combined with policies that say school districts get paid by the heads they keep. If it wasn’t a “racial imbalance” excuse, they’d find something else.
Posted by John Foust on September 10, 2007 at 0849 hrs
John, I agree with your point that the school districts are trying find ways to keep kids enrolled but do you agree with them that virtual schools and home schooling disruptive technologies or were you just stating the school district’s view and not your own?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2007 at 1218 hrs
General labels are not helpful; this type of policy is most likely a deprivation of rights under the color of law. In other words a violation of civil rights. Intolerance is not necessary – all you have to show is that the policy has a disparate impact on one group of people (i.e. white kids).
I believe that the school district probably thinks/thought this was a good policy for all kids but that really has nothing to do with whether it violates this kids civil rights.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2007 at 1221 hrs
Home schooling and virtual schools throw all sorts of wrenches into the public education machine. You don’t need to house all the kids all the time if half of them are studying at home on a computer.
Some will never be able to afford high-speed Internet and a computer. To service those kids, a minimal school is nothing more than a cube farm with computers and Internet. Is that a virtual charter school?
What happens to a district’s infrastructure and funding if half the kids “leave” for a virtual school in the next county, the next state? Mothball the properties? Stop mowing the grass? Fire the staff? What happens if the students come back?
Oddly enough, you also see home schoolers yearning for some of the benefits of bricks and mortar. They’re building their own gyms, art studios, shared spaces.
Posted by John Foust on September 10, 2007 at 1602 hrs
Seems to me, Scott, that the decision was based upon his race, which is quite intolerant of his race, as well as being hostile towards him, by forcing him into home school.
When you want to split hairs, don’t expect me to do your thinking for you. Think for youself.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2007 at 1650 hrs
It is discriminatory. It is not intolerant. He is not being refused access to another school because that school is intolerant of people of his race race. That, ostensibly, ended in this country 40 years ago. I don’t understand why people feel the need to conflate the two.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 10, 2007 at 1658 hrs
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