Again, my original point, was that just because white parents weren’t sending their kids to school there, doesn’t mean that there weren’t parents sending their kids to school there before redistricting. It has been clarified by E and Scott, that what they really meant was that parents with options were not sending their kids to school there, which was obvious, and I accepted that clarification of their comments.

I just didn’t want to give the impression that we in Decatur did not consider anyone a “family” unless they were white and at least middle class.

I made my initial point because some said that “Prior to redistricting that area [Oakhurst] was not an option for families” when families have been living in Oakhurst and sending their children to the public schools well before upper middle class white people decided it was OK to do so themselves.

Whether that was motivated by race or not, I don’t know, but my point was to say wait a minute here, just because a family is not white or upper middle class, does not mean they are not a family and doesn’t mean they weren’t getting a good education at Oakhurst.

This thread between Oakhurst Mom and E is just killing me. I don’t even know where to start.

But I’ll try:

Between the knee jerk reaction of Oakhurst Mom instantly screaming “I know your a closet racist!!!” and, “I am SOOOOO offended.”…..to E immediately putting on the appeasement hat and restating “I was a little emphatic on not considering that fact that my statement may have caused unnecessary emotional hardship on a BLOG to someone who obviously thinks that I am a racist and Decatur Metro might get sued for being a hate site because we all know that Families are all headed by white people (Oakhurst Mom’s point of contention/offense) to Oakhurst Mom stepping on her soapbox to chastise “We need to be a little less quick labeling things and people as if everyone in Decatur is white and upper middle class…”

The only one labeling here is Oakhurst Mom!

Wait….is that racism? Hold on….let me check the dictionary:

Racism

Noun

1. the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races

I am suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure that’s what he meant.

Wait. now that I think about it…..who is the real victim here? I think I might be the victim.

Yes! The REAL victim here is every resident that has to deal with incompetent, overpaid, lazy, politically correct school administrators who only care about their jobs and cool new ways to teach kids how to add and subtract.

What happens when politics mixes with education? See here:

http://www.tsowell.com/speducat.html

Oh…and I made sure that the author of the previous link is black, so that no one can call me a racist. Phew!

There…I said it.

I just think that we need to be a little less quick around here about labeling things and people as if everyone in Decatur is white and upper middle class … because that is just not true.

The rebalancing, or if you will “re-integration” of Decatur’s elementary schools has been a boon to Oakhurst, and to Decatur in general. I choose to see the positive in that. And like Scott said, it’s not like the parents who are now moving into Oakhurst are racists – their elementary school is still 50-50.