The other day I wrote a post called Nebraska Considers Coerced Integration. People with children, white people with children, in a Nebraska school district are taking their kids out of schools flooded with poor, non-English speaking, and most likely, illegal aliens, and enrolling them in smaller (better) schools farther away.
Unlike liberal elites who send their kids to majority-white private schools while preaching “diversity” to the rest of us, ordinary, hard-working Americans probably can’t afford private schools, at least not for all of their kids.
In response to parents making rational decisions about their children’s education, the Nebraska state legislature is considering closing some of the outlying schools so that parents will have little choice but to bring their kids back to the low-performing schools flooded with illegal immigrants. Forced integration. But this is what happens when you’re dealing with the government. This is social engineering at its worst. If parents can’t afford private schools or homeschooling, they essentially have to deal with it. Or fight it.
That’s why I was pleased to learn that a liberal do-gooder in California has tucked tail and run with the rest of the white parents. Her mission was trying to convince reasonably intelligent people that keeping their kids enrolled in an elementary school with a 73 percent “Latino” population and 6 percent white was good for them.
That was all fine and dandy as long as her little Johnny was in kindergarten, but when he was about to enter first grade, she suddenly saw the light and transferred him to a more affluent school:
I’m gone,” said Mrs. Brace, who on Tuesday requested and was granted a transfer for her first-grade son out of Harding and into the more affluent Hope School, within the nearby Hope Elementary District. “I’ve just got to the point where, ‘Sorry guys, I need what’s best for my kids and there’s a school that’s two miles away that offers all those things I want.’ ” (Source)
I guess the light came on in Brace’s head after she realized the battle was too great and the harm to her children not worth a utopian experiment doomed to fail anyway. She complained that the Hispanic parents didn’t sign their kids up for after-school enrichment programs. And she discovered, to her utter dismay, that the Spanish-speaking parents had no interest in being her friend. But one Hispanic parent says she wants Brace and the other white parents to stay:
Harding parent Cristina Hernandez said she’s seen the school’s racial mix change, but that Mrs. Brace shouldn’t give up.“I’ve been here 14 years now, and all of a sudden we turned around and all the white parents had gone,” she said, speaking in Spanish. “They don’t want their children side by side with our children. (Mrs. Brace) shouldn’t leave. She should stay and keep fighting.” (Emphasis added)
If the speaking-in-Spanish part doesn’t give Hernandez a hint why Americans are fleeing that school, perhaps she should take some after-school enrichment classes herself.
Read the whole story. It’s a hoot. Brace is a hypocrite for snatching her kids out of the school after getting in everybody else’s face, but I support her decision 100 percent. Liberal politicians in D.C. send their precious offspring to private (safe) schools, not the District of Columbia school system. I applaud their rational decisions.
Now if they’d only leave the rest of us alone, tone down the preaching and stop castigating parents for doing what’s best for their own kids, we’d all get along.
