MINNEAPOLIS — When Mauri Friestleben learned that Minneapolis was rolling out a new school integration plan — and that the school she led, a predominantly Black, low-income high school, would soon include white students from some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in town — she looked around and proudly considered all that her school had to offer.
Minneapolis, among the most segregated school districts in the country, with one of the widest racial academic gaps, is in the midst of a sweeping plan to overhaul and integrate its schools. And unlike previous desegregation efforts, which typically required children of color to travel to white schools, Minneapolis officials are asking white families to help do the integrating — a newer approach being embraced by a small group of urban districts across the country.
The changes included redrawing school zones, including for North. “This plan is saying, everyone is going to be equally inconvenienced because we need to collectively address the underachievement of our students of color,” Mr. Moore added.
If there is anywhere white families might embrace an integration plan, a likely candidate would be Minneapolis, which became the epicenter of the nation’s reckoning with racism after George Floyd’s murder last year. The city is 60 percent white and a bastion of liberalism, with a voting population that supported President Biden by 80 percentage points or more in some areas. In majority white neighborhoods, where homes can sell for $500,000 to $1 million, lawn signs proclaim “Black Lives Matter” and “All Are Welcome Here.”
But an up close look at one school, North High, and the cross section of families who traverse the new attendance zone, shows the complicated realities of school integration, even in a city with the political willpower to make it happen.
Facing these cascading challenges, Minneapolis school officials decided on an overhaul. They assigned families to new school zones, redrawing boundaries to take socioeconomic diversity — and as a consequence, racial diversity — into account. North High, for instance, now dips farther south, encapsulating a swath of wealthier, whiter neighborhoods. The plan also moved magnet schools from whiter neighborhoods to more diverse, centralized locations.
In southern neighborhoods newly rezoned to North, real estate agents began to hear from families selling their homes. At one point, images circulated on social media of a sign outside a coveted elementary school, where the students, 60 percent white, would eventually be assigned to North. The sign depicted a tombstone. “R.I.P.,” it read. “This will destroy our community.”
One big challenge for the district was that families could still choose charter or suburban schools. In one part of the new zone, which includes some of the more affluent neighborhoods, just 15 percent of new families assigned to North decided to attend, according to district figures.
Heather Wulfsberg, who is white, had intended to send her daughter, Isabella, 14, to Southwest High, a racially diverse but majority white public school that is a 10-minute bus ride from their home. The school offers an international baccalaureate program, as well as Japanese, which Isabella studied in middle school. Isabella’s older brother, 18, is a senior there, and Ms. Wulfsberg envisioned her children attending together, her son helping Isabella navigate freshman year. So Ms. Wulfsberg appealed the reassignment to North, citing her son’s attendance at Southwest, and her daughter’s interest in Japanese. (North offers one language, Spanish.) She was also concerned about transportation. There was no direct bus, and Isabella’s commute could take up to 55 minutes. She would also have to walk from the bus stop to school through an area where frequent gun shots are a problem.
But Ms. Wulfsberg, who described herself as a lifelong Democrat, felt there was little room to explore her concerns without being misinterpreted or offending other families. Conversations on a Facebook page for parents turned tense.
“They were like, ‘Your cover is, you want academics for your kids, and underneath this all, you really are racist,’” she recalled. “It’s a very scary feeling to do a self-examination of yourself and think, ‘Am I?’”
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So I’ve noticed there is a lot of people who are extremely insecure about their height, and I think it’s insane!
I believe short men are much more attractive than tall men. I believe around 5’ and 5’5 is the perfect height for men.
For instance, the shorter you are, the easier you are to pick up and have anal s*x. Guys who are tall usually weigh a lot more, and are harder to adjust it properly. In my experience men who are short also tend to be cuter than taller men, though that’s not a fact, it just happens more often that I see a cute small guy.
The weight is a major benefit, the fact that you can be 110 lbs without being super skinny is awesome. I can appreciate a man who is in shape but isn’t going to break my back trying to lift.
In conclusion, be happy about your height
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How the frick do you fail so much as a parent that you allow this person to teach your children?
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I don't think many parents will, these things usually die within a single year. Probably even faster now with homeschooling being easier than ever.
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The article really is a savage takedown. I’m amazed it kept going after mentioning the the 1 out of 10 rating on School Yelp
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Remember u/TheReasonTrumpWon posting on Reddit? u/TheReasonRepublicanswillWinForever
It's already decided, move, if you want. I'm looking at it.
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All of this already happened. The r-slurred wokeness, the race riots, the crime, (you are here) the white flight. The main difference is back then they had satisfying goals like ending the Vietnam War and passing/enforcing the Civil Rights Act. The ones that continued to fight after those were accomplished were viewed as dangerous r-slurs at least by the public at large, but now here we are, their ethos has again conquered every elite institution and city. If history continues to repeats itself Republicans will win bigly for awhile and the Dems move to the center while these demons prepare a new generation for another round of r-slurred wokeness from their cushy professorships
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You've spent too much time on the front lines of the culture war. Rest your weary head and wait for the cyber PTSD to kick in.
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I identify her as fricking fat
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That's a bold move to look like that and have the word "polar" anywhere near you
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"make sure to get the upside-down map in the pic"
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She's just taking down the status quo a peg, sweaty 💅💅💅
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I'm just imagining the kind of caveman "researcher" who came up with that idea
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Rural canadians and russians?
Rich people?
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This but unironically. Frick the mercator projection.
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Based and The West Wing-pilled.
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Better than Gall-Peters. Looks like someone boomer posting a map and resizing it to fit
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I have a mole on my pearly white skin that is blacker than that ...
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A red flag of what? More funding?
Thanks team 👍
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Any sport that does not increase your chances of getting CTE is a red flag tbh
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Lacrosse is pretty high risk for CTE, especially if you're playing an indian team.
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Norf LC
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White people moving in is gentrification and evil sweaty.
Also white people moving out is white flight and evil as well sweaty.
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This is true, mayocide when?
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What if all mayos get extinct? Is it raycis for leaving this world?!
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You need a warrior's heart to play lacrosse, and the mayo must not become stronger with Indian tricknology.
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It's time to punish smart white kids again because black kids are dumb.
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>smart
>wh*te
Pick one.
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there's a reason the president said "poor kids are as smart as white kids"...
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I can't believe @Borpa voted for that racist.
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Voting is wh*te "people" nonsense.
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racists have to stick together!
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If wh*te kids were smart they wouldn't be c*m-colored.
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if black kids were smart they wouldn't have to bus in white kids from the other side of town to make the school seem better.
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56%istan hasn't had a 'mayo' president in more than a decade now so....
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Crakkas btfo.
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you sure showed me?
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You mean the Joos?
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Drama?
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They already know it going to be a disaster but their conscience compels them to continue
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You have to look at this through the lens of an education grifter. Once this fails for obvious reasons, they can then go on a speaking tour blaming whites and then land a job as a consultant somewhere.
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