Court orders Mississippi town to desegregate schools after 50-year fight

What people don't understand about this is that the city of Cleveland MS is desegregated. Let me explain. The schools are based on where you live. If my daughter lives 2 miles from the school she is attending, then why would I force her to bus across town to go to another school 10 miles or more away? Yes there is a dividing line, the railroad tracks, but people can live anywhere they want to in Cleveland MS or Cleveland OH. I want people to know this isn't unique to MS. When I was a recruiting Sq CC, there were parts of Cleveland OH that have the same situation. You can put the line INPUT CITY HERE and you would find the same situation. Are we going to start busing people from East LA to Beverly Hills? Inner City New York to Long Island etc? Parents make that choice where they live for their kids sake and that would put them in the school system they want their child to attend. The Cleveland MS School District has about 3,700 students, with about 66 percent black, 30 percent white and 4 percent Asian or Hispanic. These numbers tell me that for every black child there is one white child. So they are telling me that all the black children go to one school? There is no way. Look at the facts without speculation and relook this. The federal govt. forcing kids to uproot to another school is not right when their parents chose to live in the district where they are going to school. Social engineering is not going to work when it is a parental choice to choose where they live.

It will never be settled. Social engineering is something the feel gooders want to force on society. Never mind the fact that it has been proven that people want to be with people who are like them in race and social status. The feel gooders want to force people of different social statuses together, different races, different age groups, etc. Even though that makes everyone uncomfortable and unhappy.