SK> -> *4   FOR THE GOOD OF THE CHILD:  OR OF THE SCHOOL?
SK> ->    A "gifted" eight-year-old Montgomery County, Md., student
SK> -> has filed suit against a school system that would not let her
SK> -> transfer to a school with a strong gifted and talented program
SK> -> outside her normal attendance boundary.  The decision was based on
SK> -> race:  the girl is white, and the Montgomery County Board of
SK> -> Education ruled that her departure from Strathmore Elementary
SK> -> would "harm" that school's racial balance (Beyers, WASH POST,
SK> -> 8/24
    Wonder why middle-class white parents are fleeing the public schools in 
droves?  Wonder why the middle-class white parents won't support tax 
referendums for public schools?
    Policies like the one above guarantee ever-diminishing support for public 
schools among middle-class white parents.
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