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...foes of rapid integration won a round in Arkansas last week. Taking its cue from a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld the constitutionality of Alabama's pupil-placement law last winter, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that a similar law in Arkansas is legal. Under the law, Arkansas school boards have full authority to assign students on the basis of qualifications not essentially concerned with race...
Wilcox pointed out that it was very interesting that the students who had expressed unwillingness to become sophomores did not all come from the leaders in Advanced Placement--Exeter and Andover...
...smaller schools were heavily represented. He suggested that these students were actually considering the implications of accepting the opportunities of Advanced Placement more carefully than those from the bigger schools...
...wishing to go to a white school must exhaust all possible state administrative channels before appealing to the Federal Courts on the grounds of segregation. If his parents are not determined or wealthy enough to undertake the long administrative and judicial grind necessary for a change, he must accept placement on the basis of "intelligence," "health and morals," or "maintenance. . . of established social and psychological relationships with other pupils and with teachers...
While the "pupil placement law" may keep Southerners happy for a while, any realistic plan for desegregation must envision the Supreme Court requiring community desegregation plans sooner or later. "Pupil placement" is a useful expedient, but it must not be allowed to remain more than a temporary phenomenon...