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  • Ricci Limerick

    I'm behind in my reading, and I can't believe no one took Ms. Lithwick up on her invitation to find a limerick for the Ricci case, so I've surely missed the relevant thread. But I took a crack at it, and here 'tis: If New Haven's standards were too exact, Their results were sure to have disparate impact. But for poor, Mr. Ricci Will they ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by gluon1 on June 30, 2009

  • Re: Quotas are not percentages

    There are quite a number of private high schools in Seattle. And they have grown in huge numbers since 1970, and all have wait lists. There are (off the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing a few): Lakeside, Blanchet, University Prep, Seattle Prep, Holy Names, O'Dea, Bush, and Northwest So that's 8 in a city of 500,000. Not insignificant. And I ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 17, 2007

  • So what's the solution?

    Wow, degsme. Thanks for the great posts. So, what's the plan? How do we solve this? (I hope I wasn't the one who name called, for goodness sake, we haven't stooped that low, have we?) On many of these issues we are just in disagreement. I will always think my grandparents worked in a diverse environment in Eastern Washington because as a city ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 15, 2007

  • It wasn't brainwashing

    I was hoping that degsme would reply to my earlier post because he obviously had insight in to the Seattle system. I disagree with Iwasblind because a lot of what you are saying is theory and makes for great t-shirt slogans. In reality a lot of these ideas don't pan out. Everyone grows up in a ''culture'' whether it is European, African, Asian, ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 14, 2007

  • The numbers are the point

    You made a lot of great points here. I'll try to address them all as best as I can. I think the numbers are the biggest piece of evidence we have when we discuss the success of SSD's integration policies. Go to the suburbs now and go to the private schools. Talk to people who have lived in the city for generations. They will tell you about ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 9, 2007

  • The puzzle piece was already lost

    I appreciate your reply, and you obviously do know a lot about the system and the way it worked. I must add that my parents were both products of Washington state public schools, and my maternal grandparents were both public high school teachers in a culturally diverse community in Eastern Washington for over thirty years. My family cares deeply ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Kristine on July 6, 2007