I was in Charlotte over the weekend, so the Uptown paper of record was my Sunday morning reading. I followed with interest and an open mind today’s lead editorial on the conservative Wake County school board’s controversial reassignment plan. Then I got to the punchline:
But it’s not as though Wake school board leaders don’t know what they need to do. They’ll have to persuade county commissioners to raise a ton of money through new taxes in a difficult period to provide instruction, resources and support for the students they’re about to assign to new high-poverty schools if they really hope to help those students. How they’ll raise that money is another question, but they’ll have no excuse for arguing they didn’t know what they were facing in their headlong enthusiasm for social engineering.
That the Charlotte Observer is questioning anyone’s ‘headlong enthusiasm for social engineering’ is crazy enough, never mind that they’re criticizing people trying to undo social engineering that has been imposed on families for 40 years now, with little if any positive effect.
