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                     Sorry, English speakers need not ride
                                        
> ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)—A school bus driver let Rachel Armstrong's three
> children board the bus Monday morning, but he warned them that he wouldn't
> give them a ride home that afternoon, nor could they ever ride his route
> again.
> 
> The problem: Armstrong's 10-year-old twin girls and 8-year-old son speak
> English. According to their mother, the driver told them the route had been
> designated for non-English speakers only.
> 

Via Gates of Vienna [1], “Students kept from bus in St. Paul; told reserved
for those learning English [2]”

Has desegregation busing [3] gotten such a bum rap that the pendulum has
swung around again? Have we gone back to “separate but equal [4]”?

Why didn't I get the memo [5]?

Was there a memo?

I'm horribly confused.

[1] http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/01/kicked-off-schoolbus-for-
[2] http://www.startribune.com/462/story/930193.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separate_but_equal
[5] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

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