http://bsdbudget.blogspot.com/2010/09/flawed-statistical-methods-of.html

http://bsdbudget.blogspot.com/2010/09/flawed-statistical-methods-of.html

If all other things are equal, we’re better off if kids aren’t being raised in racial isolation – especially if we believe in colorblind citizenship. Since in fact not only are all other things equal, but the same policy that accomplishes desegregation also accomplishes our other policy objectives, why *not* make this argument?

Desegregation is our turf, not theirs. Every time I’ve had this argument I’ve won – big time. They’re just not smart enough to have realized that yet.

The problem isn’t segregation and it never has been. People segregate all the time. Dark-skinned black kids sit with dark-skinned black kids and light-skinned black kids sit with light-skinned black kids at historic black colleges.

What’s unacceptable in a democracy is forced segregation of the citizenry.

That’s the crucial difference, and all the difference that’s necessary, between Brown v. Topeka and a 95% black charter school.

Other then the obvious ethical difference between forced and voluntary segregation, the other important difference is that those who voluntarily segregate themselves have to accept the cost of self-segregation to access its value. That’s why all those wonderful ethnic neighborhoods have fallen apart; the cost of a common language, heritage, foods, etc gradually became high enough that fewer and fewer were willing to accept the bargain.

Mr. Gyurko’s manufactured concern over some theoretical, societal cost of voluntary segregation diminishes to insignificance before the value parents see in the power to exercise control over the education of their child.

If only he were holding those cards at a 90 degree angle – or if I had real image editing software that would let me rotate the text!