"Forced segregation" refers to a situation where people are separated or kept apart from each other against their will. It often happens due to laws or policies that target specific groups based on their race, ethnicity, or other characteristics.
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Besides, there's a difference
between forced segregation and choosing a school that presents the best opportunity for your student.
«He was also a comsymp [Communist sympathizer], if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of
forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.
On this special edition of The Conversation, Dr. Steve Perry blasts the Associated Press» sloppy report on charter schools, explaining the difference between minority families choosing schools and
forced segregation by traditional districts and states.
The Met Council and charter advocates have disagreed with this assessment, the former arguing that cities are better off incentivized to carry fair - housing loads, the latter that school choice is hardly the same
as forced segregation.
It highlights events surrounding
the forced segregation of Apartheid and the escalating violence that lead to Mandela's arrest and 27 years of imprisonment on Robben Island and in other prisons.
The CRP authors are simply wrong to compare these active parental choices to
the forced segregation of our nation's past.
To compare these active parental choices to
the forced segregation of our nation's past (the authors of the report actually call some charter schools «apartheid» schools) trivializes the true oppression that was imposed on the grandparents and great - grandparents of many of the students seeking charter options today.
The next section then looks at the impact of the war on the next stage of the attack on the Jews by looking at
the forced segregation and isolation through ghettoes, which was followed by the work of the Einsatgruppen Battalions as the German Army advanced into the USSR.
To compare this choice to
the forced segregation that occurred a half century ago is a trivialization of the true oppression that occurred.
The stigma that attached to
forced segregation is totally absent today, students and their parents choose to attend the charter schools that they prefer and that think will be effective --- demographics may or may not play a role in that decision... it's their choice.
The reasons for educational disparities like this may be less deliberate than in the era of
forced segregation, but the effects are no less insidious.
The problem in Connecticut is really not due to laws that
force segregation but traditions, systems and processes (along with housing, transportation and political boundaries) that end up segregating our population.