Resegregation? So What?
Last updated: Friday - April 18, 2008
From a reader of an ad for "Fertilizers, Pills, etc.":

The book does look interesting--at least provocative. But I think I already know where [you're] coming from, and it's a debunked argument. If vouchers, charters and other school choice methods are soon followed by descriptions of white quasi-public schools, etc., then [your] arguments must be delusional. The argument that vouchers and charters would become enclaves of white privilege was hurled at us in Michigan, and I then established an all black charter school. Rise Academy is 95% minority and low income. The fact is that a higher percent of kids in charters and voucher schools are minority than the public schools. And the argument that this is driving a new segregation -- to that I say: So what? When blacks and browns freely choose a school that is of their own ethnic group, that's not the old segregation that was imposed in the past. It's freedom of choice to leave local public school monopolies that have consistently failed their children.

Rick Baumgartner
Rise Academy

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