Word: ghettoes
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...busing is futile unless it can be demonstrated to benefit black children. Some blacks consider it demeaning to pursue whites farther and farther out into the suburbs. On the other hand, long experience has shown that predominantly black schools in many instances are shortchanged by white-dominated school boards. Ghetto schools frequently are badly equipped and poorly maintained, have fewer textbooks and less experienced teachers because more senior teachers transfer to middle-class schools. Still, there is no conclusive evidence, despite hundreds of studies, that desegregation improves the school achievement of black children from lower-income families. Whether...
...country, and his wife, an articulate spokeswoman for Save Our Community Schools, are keeping their children home to protest the busing plan. Their two boys would have had to get up at 6:35 a.m. and ride a bus for 50 minutes to reach Parkland Junior High, a black ghetto school 22 miles away in Louisville. "They won't go there-ever," vows Mrs. McCauley...
...involving FHA loans have been uncovered in 20 cities across the U.S. The latest is Chicago, where the Tribune recently turned up dozens of cases of mortgage shenanigans that have cost the Government millions of dollars. Often, real estate dealers would lure a low-income family into buying a ghetto house, perhaps by putting up part of the down payment. The company would then secure FHA insurance for the mortgage on the house, typically based on an unrealistically high appraisal that inattentive FHA officials did not question. After the financially strapped tenant let the house fall apart and moved...
...vulgar for such an exercise. With a newspaper storm breaking around him, he has been reduced to protesting that "I love black people, I love the guys I grew up with" (in Brooklyn's Brownsville section in the '50s, when it was becoming a black ghetto). One is inclined to believe him. No one who does not wear white sheets in public could intentionally offer such a blatantly distasteful representation of blacks on the screen at this late date and hope to get away with it. Irony was surely intended-and sorely missed in the end. Bakshi...
...problem is compounded when racial sensitivities are involved. Should teachers try to enforce the prescriptive rule of standard American English on black children who have learned a dialect at home that is quite different, that is "incorrect" by the standard rules? Ghetto students are often faced with the choice of accepting the teacher's standards or retaining those of family and friends. Says William Smith, associate professor at Boston University's School of Education: "If a child is told the way he speaks is ignorant, he has only two options: ridicule or silence...