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Tuesday, December 9, 1975
University Dally Kansan
School districts struggle
From page one
HE SAID TEACHERS at Lincoln thought the presence of white students in the school would increase the possibility that their equipment and supplies for the school.
Vicki Greer, a student representative and cheerleader from mostly white Northeast High School in subdistrict 3, said a desegregation plan that was carried out last year would have moved her to integrated Westport High School.
"The don't have chemistry labs or a physics class there," the said. "The highest student in our class."
Michael D. Smith, a representative from the National Association of Social Workers, counsels children in the integrated west side of subdistrict 1.
HE SAID THE QUALITY of education in some of the central city schools is so low that 'if a kid wanted to go to college, he would have to do remedial work' 17
But Isaac Gardner, parent representative from black district 4, the school-district psychologist, and chairman of the task force said the most disturbing inadequacy in the minority schools was inferior teaching.
"Buildings don't teach kids and programs don't teach kids," he said. "Teach kids teach kids."
The proponents of the metropolitan desegregation say that the quality of facilities and teaching in the Kansas City, Mo., School District will improve as money.
it took. I think people will accommodate their behavior when they are coerced."
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE those who think that a metropolitan desegregation plan would be a boon to the central city school district, others doubt that it would work or that it is feasible, and others are sure it would cause more harm than good.
"I could solve a lot of problems," Gatson said, "but we would have to do it slowly. I like to take two or three years to do it. If we say we'll do it by Sept. 1, we don't have the time to prepare the teachers, parents or the kids."
However, Gatson said, the district may be forced to commemorate to initiate a desegregation plan.
"THEY'S EVERY possibility we could get into a court-ordered situation, including being
Gardner said he wasn't sure that a metropolitan plan would solve any problems. He said he thought the school district's suit for metropolitan desegregation was a "ploy to procrastinate."
Gardner also said he doubted whether a metropolitan plan was possible. Both blacks and whites in the suburban areas of Kansas oppose the metropolitan desegregation, he said.
Evelyn Garr, regional director of the Parent Teacher Association Council that includes the suburban areas around Kansas City, said her contacts with suburban parents made her think money was their main concern.
"I THINK THE people are worried about having to pay the bills for the Kansas City, Mo., School District, rather than the black-white question," she said.
Thomas VanDyke said the Human Relations Commission, which he represents on the task force, supported a metropolitan plan, though it probably wasn't possible.
black-whit question, but I don't think we as upright as most people think we do."
or politically feasible, particularly across a state line," he said.
Another reason frequently given for opposing metropolitan desegregation is the breakdown of the local school district, he said.
Many are concerned about invading See DESEGREGATION page seven
"Lots of people get uptight about the
parental concern and political power are injected into the district from the white
"Most of our group think it is not legally
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Robert Kost, representative from City-Wide Coalition of Neighborhood Organizations said the district's main problem was that most people with money lacked employment living in the city, and many of those who lived there were leaving.
THOMAS VANDYKE, representative from the Human Relations Commission of Kansas City, Mo., said, "If we can't go that route (metropolitan desegregation), I don't know whether the problem can be solved. I don't know whether the Kansas City, Mo., people property by itself. Many people will put their kids in private schools."
The problem of whites taking their children out of the central city school system as black enrollment increases isn't new to Kansas City. Chuck Guston, a black student at the University of subdistrict 2 and corresponding secretary of the task force, said he was graduated from Southeast High School in the 1960s when the school and the surrounding area were still white. In 1980, it was 80 per cent black. The school, which was 35 per cent black in 1965, is 98 per cent black.
But when the black population started growing, he said; the whites started leaving. He was then called a representative from the Metropolitan Inter-Church Agency, said a metropolitan desegregation plan would be the first step toward changing racially prejudiced at-
"I think it is very difficult to legislate a 'change like this', he said. "People are not going to change their racial, moral and ethical attitudes freely. Stringent laws had to be passed before restaurants and buses were opened up in the South and that's what
"WHEN I WENT OUT THERE, the whites chased us home," he said. "As long as the blacks were in the minority, there weren't any problems."
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