Merger of Memphis and County School Districts Revives Race and Class Challenges
So apparently merging the Memphis and Shelby county school districts is going to make the rich suburbs secede and form there own school districts. The is predictable, but I also wonder if there are any other real proposals designed to address the problem of educational inequities in the county vs the city.
So yeah, I am not sure how I feel about this article as a whole. Mainly because I feel like I need to be a little more informed. But it seems to me that there needs to be some sort of forced thing to insure that each school gets roughly the same money per student. Otherwise the higher paying people will always have better educational advantages and it becomes a cycle. It just makes me mad about the blatant racism and classism that can be seen not only in white flight, but in our own education system.
