What wrong with this picture?

While the Hernando County School Board is considering plans to abandon busing to end racial segregation, they voted on a pilot program for same gender classrooms at Westside Middle School this week. What's wrong with this picture? Are we to believe 'the separate but equal' mind set will become acceptable in our society again? We had a prior definition for this 'separate but equal' way of life in the south called Jim Crow law's. These Jim Crow law's were designed to give legal recognition to discrimination, with the separation of black and white Americans by law, from 1883 to 1954. In 1896, the US Supreme Court approved of racial segregation with the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that gave an official seal on the "Separate but Equal Doctrine". The Plessy vs. Fergusan decision had a lone vote of dissent by US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, a former slave owner from Kentucky. Justice Harland declared: " Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens...The thin disguise of 'equal' accommodations will not mislead anyone, nor atone for the wrong this day done." The "Separate but Equal Doctrine" remained in effect until the US Supreme Court heard the Brown vs. the Board of Education to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment that guarantees equal protection under the laws. Being of the baby-boomer age, the image of busing to end segregation in the south was a terrifying time in our society. While the National Guard patrolled schools to enforce court-ordered integration, parents of black, and white children, alike, were afraid to send their children to school due to violent acts of many senseless people. These violent acts ranged from vandalism, to fire bombings, at many schools in the south. During these turbulent times, a police officer was stabbed in the chest at a Pinelllas County high school. Do we really want to turn back the hands of time justifying the "Separate but Equal Doctrine" in our society? Hopefully, history will not repeat itself right here in Hernando County.