Mississippi School district Ordered to end racial Segregation

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a Mississippi school district to halt local policies that had allowed some of the districts schools and classes to become racially segregated.

US District Judge Tom Lee gave the Walthall County School District 30 days to amend its student transfer policy and ordered an immediate halt to the alleged "clustering" of white students into certain classes in Tylertown, Miss., elementary schools.

"The district shall cease using race in the assignment of students to classrooms in a manner that results in the racial segregation of students," Judge Lee said in his eight-page order.

"The district shall randomly assign students to classrooms at the Tylertown Elementary Schools through the use of a student management software program," the judge said.

The action stems from a federal desegregation order issued in August 1970 nearly 40 years ago. The case was closed for lack of activity in 2001

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[RedinkTrading]

I live in this area and I don't believe this is what they claim it to be... A lot of the preference to transfer is simply based on distance to and from school. Most people here in our town do not base their decisions on where to send their children to school based on which one has more or less of another race of students.

[TheAtheistTaco]

@EnderGhost119 wtf...... people like you still exist? Lincoln was a great president an the private thing might be true but just shows your racism

[kowalityjesus]

what a big goddamned crying shame.

[EnderGhost119]

Abraham Lincoln was a dictator, he pretty much ordered slave be given up be for the law as actually passed by congress, and also if it's a private establishment isn't it there "freedom" to not allow people of certian color not be allowed there?

Home of the free and home of the brave? NOT!

[TheMardenborough]

appearently Abraham Lincoln was an idiot, or he made an idiotic comment you decide!

[moojeed]

I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the Negro into our social and political life as our equal.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN