Fitzsimon: No time to dismantle Wake County schools

For those who didn’t make time to read it, you really should check out Chris Fitzsimon’s column from yesterday afternoon — “Flailing against diversity” .

In it, he shows once more why the arguments of the anti-integration crowd about saving money through ending diversity are about a quarter-baked.

But a comparison of the two systems earlier this year by the News & Observer included the fact that the Charlotte system spends 17 percent more in busing cost per student than Wake County schools. It doesn’t seem like segregated schools save any money on school buses.

They don’t produce as a good of a result in the classroom either.

Wake County is doing better that Charlotte Mecklenburg in virtually every measurement of performance, lower teacher turnover, higher SAT scores and a higher graduation rate. Wake County is achieving its better results with less money. It educates almost 4,000 more students than Charlotte with $35 million less every year.

Keep giving ‘em heck podnah.