Реферат: Why The End Of Integration Essay Research

Another reason why plans for integration stopped was that many believed

they were morally wrong. Mr. Symington, a Republican, said, ” The education of

Arizona’s children should not be held prisoner by a racial quota system.” While

Edward Newsome feels it’s just patronizing to blacks, “that the courts are so

willing to assume that anything that is predominately black must be inferior.”

There were also problems with magnet school programs. Most were designed to

attract white students to predominately black schools and vice versa. The

communities were using magnet schools to lure whites away from private schools.

Along with being unjust the magnet school plan also did not work. In 1985 one

district was 73.6% minority, 11 years later the district is now 75.9% minority.

Missouri v. Jenkins stopped the unjustness of Judge Clark and his magnet schools

when they ordered it was wrong of him to pay for a plan just to attract suburban

students. Plus last June The Supreme Court said the district court had no right

to order expenditures aimed at attracting suburban whites.(Kunen)

The systems to integrate schools were also very costly. On average the

cost for one student per year to be bussed is between $300 and $400. Kansas City

spent $1.5 billion on magnet schools in town, a 10 year failure. San Francisco

spent $200 million since 1982 to improve desegregation and after found it lacked

“even modest overall improvement.” (NCPA) John F. Huppenthal, the Republican

chairman of the Senate’s education committee said, “It is evil to hold them in a

system which isn’t doing much for them, particularly when it is so damn

expensive.”(Schmidt) The huge amount of money they used to pay for these methods

came out of what could have gone to improving general schools or improving

academic standards.

My opinion is that the plans for integration stopped because their

maneuvers were not working. I believe those maneuvers should have stopped. They

should spend more time improving the schools than integrating the students.

There should be more schools like the J.S. Chick elementary school that doesn’t

look down upon it’s 98% African American school. In that school the students