have marital bliss. we all say that with a big smile. resegregation or neighborhood schooling, a controversial move by a north carolina school district sparks protest and debate over integration. next, hear from the school board member who drafted the plan and an naacp leader who is fighting against it. ouch! ow! oops! it s neo to go!® ready. aim. protect. neosporin® gives you infection-protection, and pain relief. neo to go!® plus pain relief. every cut. every time. everywhere.
actually it has not met the goals it was set out to do? no, and john knows that s not the facts that we should be talking about. the reality is that across this nation we see resegregation. wherever we try to use selected real estate zones, we end up we resegregation, from los angeles to new york to pittsburgh, to mississippi, to right here in north carolina, and it creates pockets of poverty and misery, and we know that recession greated schools are the enemy of school excellence, diversity is the friend to school excellence. when the program was put in place, it was to move closer and to end the conservative attacks we had to turn back our strong constitutional high quality education for all children by ultra conservatives and others. from 2000 to now, the reality is in a new york times article and a book written by gary grant, why there are no bad schools in wake county, shows that we were
this year, 400 additional children got into some of our best magnet schools from low income communities who never had a chance to get into those before because the system didn t weight their income as a factor against them. reverend basher, i know you have a number of thoughts here. bottom line for white and black students and latino and asian, there are so many benefits to this program, what concerns you the most about it going down the drain? give me a moment because there are so many disstorings. first of all, desegregation and diversity is the law. all of the educational research says it s good. we know what makes good schools. you have to start resegregation, promote diversity, smaller classer, more teachers. you have to have parental involvement, community involvement and you have to have ex-quit at this time. this program is touted all over the country. 70 to 85 other districts look at