No White Child Left Behind

Remember the good 'ol days when students in Florida only had to go to school with other students whose skin was the same color?

Well, Hillsborough County is trying to bring back those good 'ol days of separate but "equal" schools.

Predictably, Hillsborough County’s new school choice plan has resulted in a return to the days of separate but “equal” education, with poor and minority students being crammed into schools lacking such basics as bathrooms and books.

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A year ago, a dozen Hillsborough public schools reported nearly 90 percent or more of their children qualified for free or reduced-price meals based on federal guidelines.

Now there are 23 such schools, a transition tied to a district plan to let some families choose their own schools.

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The choice plan, which went into effect in August, allows families of certain students to choose from schools in their assigned region as long as there is room. That includes families living in Tampa's generally impoverished inner core, where forced busing to the suburbs took place for decades to desegregate schools. It ended this year.

Few families from the inner core ended up choosing schools, so most were assigned to their neighborhood schools.

The only students required to make a choice are those who were previously bused to nice schools from their blighted inner city neighborhoods. Guess what: the poor and under-educated parents of those kids often failed to make a choice, and even when they jumped through all the right hoops, they were told “sorry, but the nice schools are all full...”

Talk about leaving a lot of students behind. Good thing for us white kids though, that none of us are affected.

What about lynch mobs? Is Jeb! going to try to bring those back too?