69-F R E S O L U T I O N NO. 69-F
WHEREAS, the Health, Education & Welfare Department of the
Federal Government makes requirement of School Boards throughout the
United States regarding desegregation and integration of Public Schools;
and
WHEREAS, the presently existing proposal by the Palm Beach School
Administration to abide with H.E.W.'S acceptance of a plan, would eliminal
Boynton Beach Junior High School with the busing of Boynton Beach Junior
High School age children to Lantana Junior High School in Lantana, and
Carver Junior High School in Delray Beach; and
WHEREAS~ such steps if followed would tend to destroy community
identity with family and student child and further deplete the City of
Boynton Beach of identifiable education facilities in proportion to its
tall. idly growing population~ (both student and adult)~ and
WHEREAS~ such steps would indicate no long range planning to
anticipate problems of growth so as to meet them with economical ef£ectiv~
ness; and
WHEREAS, such a program would place such junior high school age
students in the awkward and absurd position of attending school outside t~
municipal boundaries of the city residence planned for and adopted by
their parents for cultural~ fraternal or economic reasons, with the
attendant uncalled-for unfavorable effects on such parents, and
WHEREAS, such a condition would further broaden the gap between
parent~ school and student relationship with related further disintegra-
tion of public interest and control of public schools~ and
WHEREAS~ it is of the utmost importance to maintain community
integrity and fulfill the needs of the total community within itself, and
WHEREAS, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 says: "Desegregation shall
not mean the assignment of students to public snhools in order to overcom~
radical unbalance", and
WHEREAS~ the Supreme Court has not decided that the Federal
Courts are to take over or regulate the Public Schools of the States, and
WHEREAS, the Constitution does not require integration but forbids
discrimination, the freedom of choice that denys to no person on account of
race the right to attend any school that the (Sunty maintains best secures
this requirement, and
WHEREAS, quality education and not racial balance is the responsi-
bility of local School Boards, and
WHEREAS, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states: "Nothing herein
shall empower any official or Court of the United States to issue any order
seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transport-
ation of pupils or students from one school or another in order to achieve sucl
racial balance";
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA, that it disapproves of the
proposed plan to eliminate Boynton Beach Junior High School with busing of
Boynton Beach junior high school age children to Lantana Junior High School
and to Carver Junior High School; and further be it resolved that the said
municipality approves of that portion of the H. E.W. recommendation which
reads, "Boynton Beach Junior High to remain as is with objective attendance
zones determined and adjusted by the Lantana Junior High School to assure
proper student population for the schools of this area."
PASSED AND ADOPTED this i 7 t-~ ~, ~
- day of [~t:'~i~ , 1969.
ATTEST:
C~iiy Clerk
CORP. SEAL
CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH. FLORIDA
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