In a system that is 86% minority, Boston schools somehow become even more segregated

The Globe reported Sunday that nearly 60 percent of the city's schools are intensely segregated, up from 42 percent two decades ago. In those schools, students of color fill at least 90 percent of seats.

The schools enroll 57,000 students, of whom nearly 86 percent are people of color, according to district data.

I'm glad it's not my job to design a computerized assignment system that would prevent occurrence of schools with more than 90% minority students in an 86% minority system, while minimizing transport.

It's disappointing and not a good sign for the future.

All info is FTA:
"...as enrollment has shrunk by about 8,300 students to 55,500..."
"... white students make up 14 percent of..."
"Collectively, these five schools educate about 1,400 white students, accounting for 18 percent of all Caucasians enrolled in the system. The largest number of white students in any single school in the system, about 1,125, attend Boston Latin School, filling 46 percent of seats there."

So, that's 7770 white kids in total. The bulk of the white kids, 82%, already go to other schools. So, the five schools have 1400 kids enrolled, with 1125 in one school, leaving 275 kids in the remaining four schools.
If you divide that group evenly among the other hundred schools, you get...2.75 kids per school. Not adjusted by grade of course, but my question is, if my numbers are anywhere near right, just what can be done about it?

So, what am I missing? Who has an agenda and what is it?
Short of busting up BLS, there's not much to work with. My speculation is that these articles (there's another on on the Globe's right sidebar) are aimed right at BLS. I think the Sumus Primi crowd has the Sword of Damocles hanging over it.

I'll respond to your comment right after I finish reading the article. Oh, look, right there in the first paragraph:

Nearly 60 percent of the city’s schools meet the definition of being intensely segregated — meaning students of color occupy at least 90 percent of the seats. Two decades ago, 42 percent of schools were intensely segregated.

And then two paragraphs later, I see they bring up your majority-white schools:

The majority-white schools are emerging in the same neighborhoods that had them prior to court-ordered desegregation.

Next time, read the damn article before you spew your inane bullshit.

It's time to rid Boston of the Gordian knot of busing once and for all.

That's funny. I thought that Boston got rid of mandatory school busing some years ago.

How much do you get paid to troll hyper-local news sites with that awesome 'southern' grammar, tovarish?

Maybe the voters don't trust charter schools as far as they can throw them and it has nothing to do with unions.

Absolutely. The only way the schools will be less segregated is if Boston is less segregated, and the only way that will happen is if the quality of the schools improves enough so that people who can afford to send their kids elsewhere choose not to.

I fully support the idea of neighborhood schools, where kids are classmates with their neighbors and can walk and bike to school. There are a whole host of benefits to this. However, our neighborhoods themselves are pretty segregated, so the end result will indeed be segregated schools. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, as the schools will have the same makeup as the neighborhoods they serve. The big issue is ensuring that all schools have the resources they need to properly educate everyone, and that there are not disparities in the funding and quality of education between schools.

admit a handful of black and other non-white kids into their schools, they did not particularly want them taking up residence in their towns.

How would gentrification solve the issue? That would just drive up housing prices and drive out many of the current, diverse residents. No?

Frankly, Dan Farnkoff, nowadays, even Southie is more diverse than Weston or Dover.