Alabama Judge:" a white city may secede from its racially diverse school district."
She said she was protecting black students from white people's anger.
Jus' helping out and all that.
The ruling by the Birmingham U.S. District Court allows the city of Gardendale, Alabama to secede from its larger, diverse school district to create its own. Gardendale is 88% white and wealthier than most neighboring cities. Its removal from the district will drastically reduce funding to the public school system.
Judge Madeline Haikala said the secession was racially motivated, that it could hinder desegregation, and would “assail the dignity of black schoolchildren,” but still ruled in its favor.
The Judge’s weak excuse was that blocking the ruling could cause angry white parents to blame black students, and that parents should have a larger say in how their school district is set up.
In the town that I live in, back in not too distant past, the whites with money moved to the south of town, away from the mixed race city school district. They built houses, and when they had enough people to vote, they became a separate town, while sending their kids to a private academy which is
still, technically, within our city limits.
Schools are funded from the State General fund, not property taxes, unlike many other states.
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except their taxes do not go for schools, except as part of the General Fund.
doesn't matter where you live as far as that goes, everyone in the state pays into the General Fund.
And yes. they do have their own taxes earmarked just for their schools. I'm in Cullman and they have a large portion of property tax that is just for the schools as well as a half cent of the city sales tax that only city schools get. This is on top of what they get from the state fund per student. That burns us up because we county people are shopping in Cullman and supporting their schools but not getting that tax money till we recently passed our own half cent tax which we have to share with them since they are also county residents 
Cullman city has the best of everything. State of the art football field as good as some colleges, every child has laptops/ipads now I think. Brand new facility none of our county schools could ever get.. our county schools have had to be closed due to lack of money to repair buildings.
They may not have their own schools yet to pass the taxes for, but they will eventually be in the same spot we are. The city of Gardendale will be supporting the schools very well with all the business they have to tax.
And don't let the door hit your ass on the way out!
