Merger?

Here we stand, in the year 2011, and most blacks and most whites are still going to different schools. Now lets not over-analyze the situation, because there are not any laws preventing the conjoining of the races. Even without those laws, there are indeed provisions/boundaries that most people in the area don’t want to talk about. THAT’S WHERE I COME IN! I want to know exactly what the reason is, and here are my thoughts.
1, most black students go to school there because they have to. Its really not a choice, if it were they’d probably all choose elsewhere. There is nothing there intriguing to blacks, except for more blacks. There is no football (until now hopefully), no major academic programs, and the opportunities to excel at anything because of the school is not very promising. 2, maybe some of you will say basketball. That thought is quickly diminishing. The reality is that, we haven’t won much lately. And with football possibly on the rise, basketball is at a risk of losing the best athletes. What we do know is that no matter the sport, no matter the accolades of any of the surrounding schools, black kids and white kids are not in the same classrooms.
My honest opinion, the white parents in the surrounding area DO NOT want their kids going to school with black kids. It is basically legal segregation. Not calling them racist, or prejudice, maybe there is just some sort of hidden agenda. Maybe all the things I mentioned before was enough of a reason for them to ship their kids off to other schools, hoping for them to have better opportunities.
Then again, maybe there is a hidden racism. Kanye West said “racism’s still alive, they just be concealing it”. Maybe the supreme court decision to over turn segregation did absolutely nothing for the town of Ashland, except make the fact that white parents will never send their kids to school with black kids.
By breaking down the town’s demographic, maybe most will agree. Most of the kids I went to school with stayed on the OUTSIDE of Ashland. For us, it was about a 25 minute commute. There were the areas of Lamar, highway 5, Michigan City, and our area that honestly has no name. We made up the majority of Ashland’s school system, but why? Why were the only kids that went to school in Ashland, not from Ashland? Why is it that the kids that actually stay in Ashland don’t go to Ashland? I think that once it is completely analyzed, the answer becomes obvious.
My purpose for writing this is not completely to ruffle any feathers. It is more of a challenge than an attempt at angering the people of Ashland. If my beliefs are wrong, if what I say is inaccurate, then lets work on merging the schools! There is no need to have two 2A schools, when they can have 1 school and have all the resources they need. It will kill any shortage on teachers because of the larger classes. Students will be challenged like never before, and will not be incredibly lost upon entering college. And last but not least, sports would benefit tremendously. Baseball, basketball and football would have the opportunities to be some of the best in the state, and possibly the whole region. Merging the schools is the only, and definitely the best way!