Meeker: We must stop the school board

Raleigh, N.C. — The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon in favor of a resolution outlining arguments against re-segregation of schools in Wake County.

The council followed the Wake County Board of Commissioners in adopting the resolution, which stands in opposition to recent actions by the Board of Education.

"We need to do anything in our power to stop the school board," Mayor Charles Meeker told the council.

Meanwhile, the school board majority voted again Tuesday in favor of a resolution restating its commitment to voluntary desegregation of schools.

The board wants to move away from the school system's decade-old student assignment policy that buses students to ensure socio-economic balance at schools across the county.

Members in favor of the resolution have said they will develop a policy of community-based assignments which will allow more students to attend school closer to home.

Opponents of the change say they fear it will lead to re-segregation and pockets of good schools and bad schools.

The school board members who voted in favor of the change insist that they have no plans to segregate students.

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I live in Knightdale.I put my kids in school at Hunter Elementary because Hunter had more quality courses,better equipment and supposedly better teachers.They bused the neighborhood kids across town and gave them a lesser education.This makes the school board,parents and NAACP look like idiots.We should all be more interested in EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATION.I actually don't see black and white when it comes to childrens education.We the people are failing the future of our great country.Children are our future.

cwmllc1952
April 23, 2010 8:26 a.m.

Meeker you just keep supervising who gets pinestraw and what other terrible groups play at your ampitheater and, keep your nose out of the school boards buisness,You will get voted out like the rest will!

streetfightinman
April 21, 2010 7:57 p.m.

"This could all be fixed if we just pay everyone the same and all the schools were the same and people had to live in the same kind of houses. That will solve it all!" - bluhevn1

"That is a Liberal view, totally NOT common sense. I did a study of what would happen if you gave 100 different people $10,000, and guess what? Sixty percent wasted it within 2 months."

First of all, bluhevn1's view is not Liberal, it's called Common Sense.

Secondly, if everyone started out equally, then there would be a common denominator for auditing for accountability.

As it stands now, we have no idea if the money being spent is always being done rationally or within a private agenda.

If every school got the same amount of money for each student being educated at that school, a measurement could be assembled for how much was needed for each student versus how much was being spent frivolously on needless pet projects.

God bless.

RB

Spirit Warrior Woman - Rev. RB
April 21, 2010 7:49 p.m.

The Liberals and Socialists like Meeker who want to keep diversity alive by forced busing should move to the poor neighborhoods in Southeast Raleigh.

This will allow the neighborhoods to be diverse putting an end to forced busing for diversity in Wake County.

DontLikeTheSocialistObama
April 21, 2010 7:46 p.m.

This is partisan politics on Mayor Meeker's part.

He's upset that his fellow Socialists weren't elected during the last election.

Now if we can just get his wife (Anne McLauren) voted off of the school board during the next election, we'll be in good shape.

DontLikeTheSocialistObama
April 21, 2010 7:43 p.m.