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An apparent error from today's big news of USAToday, Or not?

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oristarA
 
Reply Mon 17 May, 2004 07:27 pm
Bush, Kerry laud education gains on anniversary of Brown ruling
From staff and wire reports
TOPEKA, Kan. ?- President Bush and John Kerry on Monday both visited the city that spawned the fight to end racial desegregation in schools, using the 50th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision to discuss election-year issues.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-05-17-brown-politics_x.htm
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Should "spawned the fight to end racial desegregation in schools" be "spawned the fight to end racial segregation in schools"?
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 17 May, 2004 07:43 pm
It's all politics; we still have segregated schools in the US. Bush's "leave no child behind" is also nothing but political rhetoric. The federal government mandated minimum standards and testing of students without funding it. Most people do not follow these issues closely enough to know how their rhetoric doesn't match the reality.
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oristarA
 
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Reply Tue 18 May, 2004 08:53 am
Hi cicerone, you've expressed your opinion about politics, but didn't answer my question yet. :wink:
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Tue 18 May, 2004 04:51 pm
I indirectly answered yhur question. What they say are all political rhetoric without much substance in reality. We have "segregated" schools today after fifty years of Brown vs Board of Education. We have many segregated schools right here in California. That's a period.
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Tue 18 May, 2004 05:05 pm
oristarA,

Yes, it does seem to have been an error that you spotted.
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Tue 18 May, 2004 05:08 pm
I agree with oristarA and Craven. The sentence is in error.

I also agree with cicerone. But, maybe I am just in an agreable mood today.
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Wy
 
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Reply Tue 18 May, 2004 07:28 pm
ci, the quote says "spawned the fight to end", not "ended". Oristar is correct -- it should have read "segregation."

Although there are those who fight to this day to end desegregation...
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Tue 18 May, 2004 07:53 pm
Wy, Point well taken; I understood, but just ignored. My fault entirely. Wink
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