The grade schools are not state sponsored segregation. The High
School is.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> <justifiedright@> wrote:
> >
> >
>
> The grade schools are segrefated too, bus half the kids out and
bus
> half the amount of kids in. Your way they are hiding the black
kids.
>
>
>
> I've been writing about the segregation of Asbury Park High
School
> > for years. It's about time the Press started to catch up. I've
> > been studying this issue for a long time now.
> >
> > Everytime I talk about desegregating the schools, people just
call
> > me a "liberal." They're that freakin' stupid.
> >
> > There is no political will to desegregate Asbury Park High
School.
> > Money has already proved ineffective too.
> >
> > Remember the old busing cases where they bussed kids into
schools
> > they didn't belong in? Asbury is the opposite: The bussed out
all
> > the white kids that are supposed to be here.
> >
> > The only politically possible solution is to close the High
School
> > and send kids (there is about 475) to each High School from
> > Manasquan to Reb Bank Regional (about 60 per school?).
> >
> > Immediately each child would be in an far better educational
> system,
> > and segregation would be over. Also, the State could stop
spending
> > $60 million each year on an Abbott district.
> >
> > Now is a unique time to do it with Senator Karyllos leading the
> > consolidation charge.
> >
> > Will the people who make money from Asbury Park High School let
it
> > go? That's one barrier. The other is removing the fear of the
> > other towns who would receive the kids. Sity kids- 15 per
grade?
> > Shouldn't be a problem.
> >
> > Let me be clear: No other plan will work. Not even close. We
> will
> > just continue to have more generations of kids languish in one
of
> > the worst schools in the State if we don't break that school up.
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Superintendent spurned efforts to restructure Asbury Park
schools
> > > Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 12/5/06
> > > The Dec. 3 editorial "End segregation in N.J. schools"
> > concentrates
> > > its verbal firepower on what you call "one of the state's most
> > > dysfunctional" school systems, Asbury Park. However, I
> > congratulate
> > > you on a thoughtful and appropriately harsh contribution to
> > finding
> > > an appropriate solution. You suggest a plan to distribute the
> > > children from Asbury Park into other schools. You even
recommend
> > that
> > > one or more of the city's schools be turned into magnet or
> > specialty
> > > schools.
> > >
> > > The sad fact is that had now-suspended Superintendent of
Schools
> > > Antonio Lewis followed the direction expressed by the board
> > majority
> > > more than two years ago, our district would be well on its way
to
> > a
> > > much-needed restructuring. Back in 2004, the board majority
knew
> > that
> > > the district was both largely dysfunctional and unstable,
> > especially
> > > on the secondary level. We asked the superintendent, newly
> > returned
> > > to the district after a failed attempt to dismiss him, to put
the
> > > district on a trajectory to a newly structured educational
model.
> > >
> > > The greatest stability, improvement and hope for the district
lay
> > at
> > > the elementary level, and the greatest problem was at the
Middle
> > > School, both as a concept and a reality. We wanted the
district
> to
> > > return to a K-8 model, with three "neighborhood" elementary
> > schools
> > > Thurgood Marshall, Bangs and Bradley and one district-wide
> > > elementary school to be housed in the current Middle School
> > building.
> > >
> > > The district-wide elementary school would then be established
as
> a
> > > Board of Education-run non-traditional charter school, with
> unique
> > > rules and programs that might appeal to parents throughout the
> > city.
> > > For example, uniforms might be a requirement there, as opposed
to
> > the
> > > other elementary buildings, and rigorous performing arts or
> > > math/science programs could act as magnets.
> > >
> > > It was even demonstrated to the superintendent how that might
be
> > > accomplished over a three-year period with a minimum of
> disruption
> > to
> > > the educational process. Unfortunately, the only things we got
> > were
> > > lip service from the administration and green-wrapped
> indifference
> > > from the state.
> > >
> > > The second phase in the "restructuring that never happened"
would
> > > have addressed the inadequacies at the high school level,
mainly
> > > through regionalization. Consider that even a district as
small
> as
> > > Rumson has within its borders two school systems. There, the
> > effect,
> > > if not the intent, was to further segregation, both by race
and
> > class.
> > >
> > > With the right incentives and prodding from the state, Asbury
> Park
> > > and Neptune, historically joined at the hip, could carve out a
> > shared
> > > high school system. Both the impressive, new, taxpayer-funded
> > Neptune
> > > High School facilities and the exquisite 1925 Asbury Park High
> > School
> > > building, campus and stadium could all be put to great
> educational
> > > use. Within a newly restructured high school system, there
could
> > be
> > > both a Neptune-Asbury West High School and an Asbury-Neptune
East
> > > High School, each magnificent buildings with unique programs
to
> > > attract students from both communities.
> > >
> > > Although I am a member of the Asbury Park Board of Education,
I
> do
> > > not and cannot speak for the school board. I can tell you,
> > however,
> > > that we have been struggling to overcome years, maybe decades,
of
> > > inertia and business as usual. It was with sadness that our
> acting
> > > superintendent, Kathy McDavid, reported at a parent meeting
last
> > week
> > > that other superintendents have made it clear they will fight
any
> > > regionalization with Asbury Park. That may be sad, but it is
not
> > at
> > > all surprising.
> > >
> > > It will be up to the state to finally stop turning a blind eye
to
> > the
> > > de facto segregation in Asbury Park, exacerbated by misguided
> > worship
> > > of home rule throughout New Jersey.
> > >
> > > Frank D'Alessandro
> > >
> > > ASBURY PARK
> > >
> >
>
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