I can't see this possibly working. It would really just fuel even more segregation by having those students go to private school.
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As long that it’s done with all deliberate speed [1], white parents will be fine. /s
More seriously and with less snark, as long as our schools are separate, we can’t have true social justice. That was at the heart of the Brown v. Board decision. It’s sad that even after more than 60 years our schools haven’t lived up to the spirit of that decision.
[1]: https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/delibe...
They already are.... 75% of the current public system is minorities.....
The whites and asians (which for some weird reason, are not considered 'minorities') have already left the system altogether...
I predict the next step is going to be to forbid private schooling altogether, or require minority quotas in private schools....
Probably at that point the parents who can are going to send their kids to private boarding schools internationally. Depending on where you live currently and what country you send them to boarding school is price competitive with local (good) private schools...
Maybe they are price competitive, but they have the disadvantage of separating the kids from their parents. Most parents I know are pretty attached to their kids. I know I’m attached to mine.
I wonder if this is unconstitutional: some private schools are religious.
Can you give me a source on that? Is that for NYC specifically?
I’m pretty sure the holding of Brown v. Board was not that you can’t segregate schools based on test scores.
> true social justice
What is "true social justice"? If you ask ten people, you'll probably get ten different answers.
Seems like a pretty weak threat--"if you don't do what I want I'm going to stop taking your free services!" Okay great.
The threat is indirect. When people use the free services, they care about their quality, so there is a pressure to keep the quality high. The more people stop using the services, the more people don't care if their quality goes down.
This change can actually be irreversible, because as long as the quality is okay, people can leave and return on a whim, but when the quality goes down, they will be unlikely to return.
That's an empty threat if you have segregated schools. Because they don't care about those other schools anyway. So there's no change--either they care about only the schools in "good neighborhoods" or they care only about private schools. At least in the latter case we aren't adding insult to injury by making everyone contribute to effectively private schools.
Private school costs money?