Anonymous ___joker__ 2d

The solution I’m posing in the paper is income-based school transportation policies, essentially the kind of busing we had under Swann but based on income instead of race, since the federal government outlawed race-based attendance policies, but the Swann-era busing policy was demonstrably effective at integrating our public school system. Charlotte was a model of school integration until the 2000s when Swann got overturned.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2d

Given the direct correlation between racial and economic isolation in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School system, an income-based program would essentially have the exact same effect as the previous busing policy. And every study I’ve read on the Swann-era busing policy has shown that there were no negative effects on the white students, and overwhelmingly positive effects for minority students. Your ideas are good, but more long-term and a little too radical for my specific assignment lmao

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2d

I think your solution is pretty solid and would do more help than harm. Your largest hurdle would be logistics though. The commute times would climb so busses would have to be out earlier. That’s not so much idealistic problem as it is an operational one.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2d

The sports one is messy for me and very idealistic, I won’t deny that. I played sports in high school and did well, but I honestly felt they were a waste of time the older I’ve gotten. It’s not something I’ve fully worked out for an easy solution, I just have a firm view that schools are for academics. I think it’s one of plethora of reasons why the country has fallen behind compared to our rivals and allies on the world stage.

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 2d

The weighted student funding allows for schools to abuse the system by warehousing non-English students, special ed students, and low income. Basically it can potentially create an entirely new problem all together. Everything I’ve ever read though points to funding behind the number one issue that separates rich from poor and white from everyone else.

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Anonymous ___joker__ 2d

Yeah I was on my high school’s swim team and I remember it fondly, but I also think that school sports budgets are absurdly high for an extracurricular activity where like 90% of the participants aren’t gonna use it at all after graduating. I was also in musical theatre, so the disparity between sports funding and fine arts funding was stark. You could tell just by how much each respective program had to beg from parents. Thankfully we had a bunch of rich Drama Mamas lmao

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