02-28-2016, 10:51 AM
(02-28-2016, 10:09 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: It's the result of a court ruling from 1983 where the St Louis county schools were primarily white while the city schools were primarily black. It allows for them to transfer black students to county schools and white students to city schools.
It may be a bit outdated for 2016, it may not be. As a teacher, it's my opinion that no transferring should be allowed. If you move out of a school district, you can no longer attend that school district. If the charter school is only offered to city residents, then you have to be a city resident. They shouldn't have to give a spot up to a county resident who most likely lives in a better school system than what the city offers.
As for the journalism, this is from a pop culture website, popsugar. What does everyone expect? The unfortunate side effect of the internet is the expansion of what constitutes "journalism". It seems like Salon, who was criticized for similar errors in reporting, updated their story to reflect the reality of the situation.
Interesting take on the law and your opinion on the transfer. Grateful to hear it.
You are right, and I knew that the source is not real "journalism". However as I said, it was on the Yahoo.com main page. So for other less selective people, this would constitute as "news". The dangers is as I have said. It further continues notions based off of falsehoods.
Glad to hear Salon (they are big offenders) is being held more accountable.
