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sjmalone

Well so much for shedding the repuation of being a bunch of rednecks, yokels and people who roam cornfields every day. Thanks to the NBC Nightly News, you can add Racists to that list as well. Thanks OPS. What a wonderful way to draw National Attention to our City errr town.


By Kevin Tibbles
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:11 p.m. ET April 19, 2006

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OMAHA, NEB. - It’s been half a century since public schools in America were desegregated. But now, in Omaha, Nebraska, a new law will divide schools into districts — districts identified by race. It has sparked a heated debate over whether it’s a return to a troubled time in America or a step towards true equality.
More than 50 years after the United States Supreme Court said American children should not be separated by the color of their skin, Omaha students may soon head to class in school districts essentially divided by race.
Ernie Chambers, the Nebraska state senator behind the new law, says Omaha is already divided economically, socially and racially. “Segregation,” he says, “exists right now.”
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“Our children are failing, the schools are failing,” Chamber says. “The gap between the achievement of white children and black children in their respective schools is not narrowing.”
Chambers says each group should be allowed to govern their own schools.
Under his plan, Omaha public schools would be split into three districts. Under one scenario, one district would be 70 percent white, another 57 percent black and a third 40 percent Latino.
Critics, like Sandra Jensen, the president of the Omaha School Board, call it a step back.
“This is 2006, for goodness sake,” Jensen says, “And what they’ve done is gone back to pre-Brown vs Board of Education.”
The division would not come until 2008 and many experts believe it won’t survive a court challenge.
“This is a dangerous sign of the fragmentation of the United States into separate racial communities,” says Harvard University’s Prof. Gary Orfield, adding, “It would be a horrible precedent.”
Student Veronica Barrientos agrees. “In my opinion, I think it’s an embarrassment,” she says.
Some students, like Justin Blackson, fear it sends the wrong message. “That just kinda makes everything that our civil rights leaders did... kinda puts it in vain,” he says.
But Chambers believes minorities are not getting a fair deal. “Those who have get, those who have not get left,” Chambers says, “White people are making the decisions, and, as a result, the schools don’t have adequate equipment, supplies, textbooks.”
“He is absolutely incorrect,” Jensen says, “We have done a very good job. We’re not perfect, but we’ve done a very good job.
Whether or not they agree with Senator Chambers’ division of school districts, some Omaha teachers maintain that inequities within the education system do need to be addressed.
“It’s bringing some covert, some under the table concerns that we’ve all had for a long time,” says teacher Mamria Walinski, “and it’s sitting on the front burner.”
And then, says teacher Gary Kastrick, there’s the stigma of segregation. “I thought we were at least at the place where we could not use that word in the same sentence as school."
Omaha is a city divided over what’s best for its children.

josh

man i love this state. i've always said if a story from NE is on the national news it can't be a good thing. a big way to go to the morons in lincoln for passing lb1024.

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Lynniebits

Hey, just let me state, that OPS didn't come up with this brain child.

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mike

Mr. "I hate white people", Ernie Chambers was the rocket scientist for this brilliant concept.

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shutterbug

Okay I have said this before but I will say it again, is lb 1024 the answer, no, I think most of the legislature knows this but lets take a look at what has happened since this passed, OPS suddenly sends out a letter to the other districts saying basically lets sit down and talk and try to figure this out, this is a huge step as OPS had basically refused to sit down and talk previously. I think that was the point of the legislation, now the districts and legislators are going to sit and talk at Mahony in June, this is a great step.

For those that point out this potentially ends up in court and litigation, take a look that was going to happen anyway just under different contexts.

Lets give this some time, the process is now rolling and rolling in the right direction, I do not know of one legislater or the gov for that matter that has not said they will call a special session to fix the problem if a solution is presented.

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I've never heard you talk like that... Are we about to get it on? Because I'm as hard as a diamond in an ice storm right now.

teachergirl

Just wanted to throw my two cents in...I have no desire to continue this debate, as it makes my head hurt and gives me gas. Anyway...as to a certain comment that Ernie made...

“Those who have get, those who have not get left,” Chambers says, “White people are making the decisions, and, as a result, the schools don’t have adequate equipment, supplies, textbooks.”

I think it is so funny that when I taught in HIS legislative district, and we WROTE HIM TO SERVE ON THE SOCIAL STUDIES NEW TEXTBOOK SELECTION COMMITTEE not once but THREE times, he never responded. Gee, I don't know...put up or shut up?

Sorry, that just kinda pissed me off...let's get back to talking abou TnT, sex, and masturbation!!

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shutterbug

and how many times a week do you mastrabute TG, and what do you think about ?

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teachergirl

I try not to "mastrabute" too much...it makes me feel funny, and I tend to lose the rodents I use...

However, I masturbate a lot. (sorry, I hate to correct people's grammar, but I couldn't help it!)

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Thender

Masterbation and boobies!

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josh

my two favorite things

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teachergirl

Spoken like the true "renaissance man" you are!

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Thender

Oh, I got more...

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Lynniebits

Hey, freak, I am the English teacher here not you, and I don't correct typos! As for masturbation...God what's not to love? Did it last night, plan on doing it later today...haven't we covered this?

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teachergirl

I did it last night too...but that's a WHOLE other story

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Peter (as a child): Why did all the dinosaurs die out?
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Thender

Well, I'd like to cover it! And smother it! And...

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Lynniebits

As I think I have stated already, it could use the attention.

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goon191

he said masterbation and boobies

goon191

This state is full of a bunch of dumb ass rednecks. Why the hell do we need a school for the whites, blacks, and mexicans. This is why people move away. We vote out gays getting married and now we are splitting up the races. what the hell is wrong with this pic.

shutterbug

The purple people eater got out of control again didn't it.

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teachergirl

Actually...it is called the silver bullet

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KUfan_Donnie

^A Coors Light can?

Hot damn, woman!

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Lynniebits

I just call mine God, "Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!"

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shutterbug

Gota keep that thing under control!

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I've never heard you talk like that... Are we about to get it on? Because I'm as hard as a diamond in an ice storm right now.

teachergirl

Just plain wrong...because I know you! I can't even put into words the images running through my mind right now.

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Lynniebits

Ah, I am funny. I sometimes piss people off, but I am funny.

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