Not surprisingly, the Louisville Courier-Journal sides with the judge and against Jefferson County Public Schools' parents and students in the ongoing busing controversy. That's been the consistent stance of their editorials and op-ed pages all along.
However, I'm just wondering upon what basis the editorial writer of Thursday's editorial, "Heyburn's ruling," makes the following statement about the Jefferson County Public Schools' old race-based student assignment plan that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last year:
"In fact, the old student assignment plan was popular with Jefferson County families and worked well. It also provided a framework for making this a strong unitary district, with effective support coming from all interested parties."
With a multitude of parents being forced to put their children on a bus--only to be bused across town just to meet some kind of racial quota--combined with hundreds more being denied transfer requests by the system, I'm just curious what spurred the editorial writer's assertion that "the old student assignment plan was popular."
However, I'm just wondering upon what basis the editorial writer of Thursday's editorial, "Heyburn's ruling," makes the following statement about the Jefferson County Public Schools' old race-based student assignment plan that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last year:
"In fact, the old student assignment plan was popular with Jefferson County families and worked well. It also provided a framework for making this a strong unitary district, with effective support coming from all interested parties."
With a multitude of parents being forced to put their children on a bus--only to be bused across town just to meet some kind of racial quota--combined with hundreds more being denied transfer requests by the system, I'm just curious what spurred the editorial writer's assertion that "the old student assignment plan was popular."
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People will make any claim they can that supports their argument if they feel like no one will ever call them on it!
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