This is great. For Dallas ISD parents a moment of schadenfreude. What are Plano parents going to do now? Move to Durant?

I dont understand why people keep saying white kids or whites in general will be the minority in a decade. They may not be over 50% of the population but you would still have to combine all other minorities (non whites) to surpass the percentage of whites in america

"What are Plano parents going to do now? Move to Durant?"

The sooner the better...

44% of the population under 18 is currently estimated to be minority. Hence, white children will soon be an actual minority, comprising less than 50% of the population. It will take longer for the population in general to become less than 50% white.

Look, this is very very simple. If you think your kid is "too good" to go to school with low-income students and/or minority students, put your big money where your mouth is, and send them to private school... Or go live out in the sticks, where you're free to be as big of a racist redneck as you want. Plano is becoming more diverse? Armageddon must be upon us!!!

Great Title, Roberto!

Matt, a little hot under the collar about Plano - did you have a bad day up here sometime?

Enrique - diversity's good, but if our schools ever even begin to resemble the horror that is DISD, then yes we're moving to Durant!

Yes, the horror that is Hillcrest, W.T. White, Woodrow Wilson, Townview, and Booker T. Washington. God help Dallas.

And I believe all of them are ranked above Allen and a lot of the tundra schools on the Newsweek Top Schools list (except Hillcrest). Of course we Wildcats wish the best for the Panthers. I'm talking about the original Wildcats and Panthers in the city of Dallas.

Enrique - very nice list of 10% of DISD schools. What about the other 90%?

Great so when white kids become the minority, they better get a united white college fund and be elgible for the special grants and scholarships that afforded to minorities only now. but Im sure we will then hear that those minority grants are for non white minorities huh

About 150 of the approximately 220 DISD schools are exemplary or recognized:

http://www.dallasisd.org/exempschools.htm

"Enrique - very nice list of 10% of DISD schools. What about the other 90%?"

What about private school.... where you can pay to have upper class children next to yours?

You act like you have no options...

"Great so when white kids become the minority, they better get a united white college fund and be elgible for the special grants and scholarships that afforded to minorities only now"

That would be nice but whites will always be looked down upon and made the villains of equality. How can you unite all these different groups of people without a common enemy?

As for the schools, as long as the education, administration, and programs don't suffer then who cares who goes there?

So Dallas has 4 highschools that outperform Plano highschools and with the exception of WT White the other 3 are T&G or Magnet and somehow that's supposed to be some example of how Dallas ISD is doing better than Plano? Really? Have you looked at DISD's graduation rate lately? The real crime here is not that residents of Plano want their kids to go to really good schools but that Dallas residents don't demand their schools are better.

and the next great question is who will be the majority then? who will white people now get to blame for their social and economic place in life? People already call whites racists for not liking some of things our new prsiedent does, I can only imagine what will be said when whites use thier minority status to further thier agendas.

@RSF: exemplary or recognized as compared to what? I'd like to see those grading criteria because, if they are anything like the grading criteria used in DISD classrooms, "recognized" could just mean the building is still standing...

@Patridge: The same criteria used for PISD, and all other school districts in the state: TEA standards.

@Dobbsson: Only if former Dallas residents, today'sPlano residents, demanded better DISD schools. Imagine that.

I live in the area the article concerns and I want to clarify a few things. Stinson and Schell are not "all white" as some of you seem to indicate. We have a wonderfully diverse community of 48% Asian/Pacific Islanders and 38% white and 9% black as well as many different languages and cultures represented! You were very quick to jump to assumptions about a situation you know very little about. We are frustrated by the way the board made the boundary decision seemingly behind closed doors without disclosing the plan to the public. When the vote was taken, there was no discussion, and you could tell the decision had already been made. It was unethical. They applied a different set of rules when drawing the boundaries for the East cluster, where kids are being bused out of their neighborhoods to attend schools across town. Meanwhile, West Plano still gets to attend neighborhood schools. We never even received an explanation of their rationale and the board has refused to talk to us. They gerrymandered our boundaries to average out the testing scores for low performing schools. What else can we assume? We are being used as tools to make the district look better on paper. Why not address the problems at the low performing schools instead of trying to hide the problem?

Concerned Parent is right-on .

It is alllll about gerrymandering boundaries so no school is "low-performing" or academically unacceptable.

In response, the middle-class parents will do what their predecessors have done since the 70s: they will move or go private and that whole part of the city will tank.

You cannot sacrifice one set of kids to benefit another set of kids (or, more specifically, adults who will make money off of higher test scores).