Damned Racists

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Both sides are insane.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/brooklyn...-a-ghetto/

Brooklyn hipsters fight school de-segregation: They ‘aren’t racists’ — ‘they just don’t want to be in a ghetto’

More than 100 parents showed up to oppose a proposed rezoning plan that would desegregate two public elementary schools in Brooklyn Heights.

The rezoning plan would push upper-middle-class white families from an overcrowded public school that serves the Dumbo and Vinegar Hill neighborhoods to an under-capacity elementary school that currently serves black families who live in the city-run Farragut Houses, reported the New York Times.

Ah... but it is not just the whites who are fucked up on this one.....

“We know some white people don’t want to go to PS 307 because it’s predominantly black,” the spokesman said. “And some of the black people don’t want this influx of white people coming in.”

P.S. 307 enjoys rich programming, in part, because the school benefits from Title 1 funding for minority school where at least 60 percent of students qualify for free lunch, and some parents fear rich white students will spell an end to those programs.

It seems that some people have forgotten what a "school" is supposed to do.

Third-graders at P.S. 8 passed state tests at an 86-percent rate in 2012, with just 1 percent performing “below standards,” but P.S. 307’s pass rate was just 16 percent — and 37 percent of students fell below standards.