Michael Brown who became famous in death in Ferguson, Missouri, went to Normandy high school. When the school lost its accreditation a statute allowed transfer to a distant school district. In this episode we hear fearful and resentful white parents at a public meeting. The response was like that in Charlotte Mecklenberg, N.C. in 1970. But there was no Supreme Court to enforce the solution. Opponents defeated the integration/transfer remedy. The Normandy District was dissolved. Since the reorganized school district had no accreditation the transfer right was lost. The experiment ended. - gwc
Audio: "The problem we all live with" - failing schools in Normandy, Missouri
This American Life #562
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