clarifying my ideals

I strongly believe that schools, while it would be expensive, should strive to be more like the following:

$ smaller class sizes, peaking at 22:1 student to teacher ratio, but preference toward 15:1 ratio
$ community schools where parents can actually go to the school for activities, rather than 45 minutes away
$ be granted more flexibility regarding materials (books used, etc. rather than getting the state mandated selected books) -- in my experience, there are teachers who use 70s books because they are more effective. I saw books I had when I was a kid ... and they work based on phonics and sound principles.
$ greater scale accountability on part of student and parent/guardian: in other words, when the child prevents education in his/her class, the child is subject to removal and faster removal from that school, rather than having the child in the school for 6 out of 9 months making education impossible for one class or that school.
$ schools should be allowed to "lane" students into classes that better meet their needs; students who need more remediation should get that and those needing less repetition and more challenge should get that { THIS IS NOT the SLOW kids and the SMART kids, but rather making schools the best they can be for children's success } +
$ ensure safety of students with community schools, in that even less-savory parents might give a darn about the success of the school and children; yes, I've seen it happen

^^ With the cost of fuel and vehicle costs, eliminating waste is important ... so true that administration could be cut, for who needs a vice-assistant-vice-assistant-sub-chair-committee-approval secretary's secretary? In other words, the administration has too many bodies, with too high salaries and doing nothing to help children learn. Don't cut a Hydra at the head, cut it at the claws, in this case cronies or couldn't teach-we'll promote him/her.

+ potentially further removes some behavior problems by challenging students rather than confusing or boring them

Get back ... get back .... get back to where you once belonged

Schools, no longer "forced" to meet racial balance? That might be the Castor oil for school's problems. Some soundboarders would claim, "That would make Black schools". To them, I'd say ... yep, that would happen. In this case, you could then better find the better, but not happy, medium for the "No Child Left Behind".

Hey, this school has a cluster[fudge] of problem kids, "I'm a problem child".+ This school needs some help, dude! You think? Where many or over forty percent could factually, actually be Campbell's soup; ADHD, ADD, FAS, MMR, ED, home six in Foster Care, AIDS, opiate or amphetamine baby, etc. I mean this, not as a slant toward non-whites, but rather the racial balance swing will undoubtedly be applied to many other categories. Throw into this non-English speakers and you got mini-metropolis and the start of PS 01 and so on.

So, with this potential policy, there may be fewer bus drivers and a vast need for non-white teachers specializing in special needs. It isn't a bash against communities, it's just a likelihood that the token white teacher would be a target for profiling, harassment, and lawsuit in a nearly all non-white school.

On the "positive" side, there will be the local, "protected" as it were golden schools that could realistically have a waiting list. It will also spell the regrowth of racism, for if you don't see many non-whites and the locals tell you they are bad --- you're likely to make that assumption before meeting one.

If this law goes into effect, then the proverbial gauntlet is cast and I dare-say that racial balance policies will hereafter fail. The perfunctory retort will be, 'quotas kill competition and potential success'.

+ AC/DC