White flight-- in the wrong direction

[billbuckhead]

White flight-- in the wrong direction
Dumbing down of education gives way to new, sad phenomenon between races

Leonard Pitts, a syndicated columnist based in Washington: Knight Ridder/Tribune
Published November 29, 2005

Perhaps you remember white flight.

That is, of course, the term for what happened in the '60s when blacks, newly liberated from legal segregation, began fanning out from the neighborhoods to which they'd once been restricted. Traumatized at the thought of living in proximity to their perceived inferiors, white people put their houses on the market at fire-sale prices and took flight.

Well, something similar is happening now in northern California. Similar in the sense of being completely different.

Where whites once ran because they felt they were superior to their new neighbors, they are apparently running now because they feel they are not quite as good.

I refer you to a Nov. 19 story in the Wall Street Journal. Reporter Suein Hwang interviewed white parents who are pulling their kids out of elite public high schools, schools known for sending graduates to the nation's top colleges. They are doing this, writes Hwang, because the schools are too academically rigorous, too narrowly focused on subjects like math and science.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0511290195nov29,1,5765860.story?coll=chi-business-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

I guess what goes around, comes around.

[sui generis]

1. this school needs more cowbell! less science and math

and more cowbell!