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Article: Diversity Should be Praised, Not Enforced.(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- April 13, 2000
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The latest school integration case is now being chewed over by school board attorneys around the country, and it's proving fairly indigestible. No one is quite sure where it leaves magnet programs, busing programs, transfer policies or anything else related to school integration and desegregation.
The case, Eisenberg vs. Montgomery County, began when a Montgomery County, Md., parent wanted his son to attend a school a few miles away rather than his home school. The home school, Glen Haven Elementary, has about 600 students who come from very diverse backgrounds: roughly 25 percent are White, 30 percent Latino, 35 percent African American and 10 percent Asian -- ...