States and counties adopted many different plans to desegregate their schools. In 1965, the New Kent County school board adopted a "freedom-of-choice plan," which essentially allowed students in the rural, residentially integrated district to choose which of the two schools they wished to attend-the formerly all black Watkins School or the formerly all-white New Kent School. After three years of the new plan, no whites had elected to attend Watkins and only 115 blacks attended New Kent. The black school children in this case contended that the "freedom-of-choice plan" in practice operated to perpetuate the racially dual (segregated) school system. It placed the burden of desegregation on the black children's shoulders.
If you were a Supreme Court justice, would you rule this "freedom-of-choice plan" constitutional?
Yes, because the children have the choice to go wherever they want and the white children chose to stay at their original school.
ReplyDeleteYes because they are giving you freedom to choose what school you want to attend. The black children just need to take advantage of the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteYes i would because then the childern would have the right to choose what school that they wanted to attend.
ReplyDeleteYes, because kids should be able to have a choice in what school they want to go to. The kids dont have to change if they dont want to they have the option of staying at th school they are at.
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