{"id":2269,"date":"2011-03-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/why-school-consolidation-is-useless.html"},"modified":"2011-03-26T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T20:00:00","slug":"why-school-consolidation-is-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/why-school-consolidation-is-useless.html","title":{"rendered":"Why school consolidation is useless: bright flight"},"content":{"rendered":"What local county grew twice as fast as any of the others?\nIf you guessed Lowndes, nope, no prize for you.\nThe answer, according to the 2000 census, is Lanier County:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/local\/x740880613\/Census-shows-growth-of-the-region\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/valdostadailytimes.com\/archive\/x740880603\/g0002580000000000008bea16b73a2489ca5b2ad00400c4482ce9e40a33.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nWhat school consolidation would get us is more of that.\nNot white flight, rather bright flight, to Lanier and other counties.\nMany of the leaders of the local African-American community already\ndon&#8217;t live in Valdosta; they live in Lowndes County or even Berrien County.\nMore of both black and white people will move out of a county\nwith a consolidated school district, resulting in lower educational\nresults not just for Valdosta but also for Lowndes schools.\nIs that what we want?\n<p>\nHow about all the people who claim they know how to take our schools\nto &#8220;the next level&#8221; get on with doing that right now with the two\nexisting school systems?\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What local county grew twice as fast as any of the others? If you guessed Lowndes, nope, no prize for you. The answer, according to the 2000 census, is Lanier County: What school consolidation would get us is more of that. Not white flight, rather bright flight, to Lanier and other counties. Many of the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1376,15,19,133],"tags":[3554,1636,8829,8701,1733,7,2877],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuee","category-education","category-history","category-vdt","tag-bright-flight","tag-consolidation","tag-cuee","tag-georgia","tag-lanier-county","tag-lowndes-county","tag-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-AB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}