DeKalb County in the Atlanta area is one district that has chosen this method. With local schools now in compliance, the Times-Union examined different methods of maintaining diversity in schools and reported concern expressed by a few that the racial composition of some schools might be less diverse with neighborhood schools. That is likely. People choose where they live and, in some cases, a neighborhood may consist mostly of people of one race. That is unlikely.
Most schools have students who are of Caucasian, African, Asian and other heritage.
The students play and study together and probably, except when adults make an issue of it, rarely think of skin color. That was true 50 years ago, which is one reason segregation was outlawed. But it has not been the case in many years, and certainly not in Jacksonville. In fact, the school administration says, resources are not allocated on the basis of race but inner-city schools that have many black students often get more resources. Of the last large investment in public school assets locally, more than half of the money went into building new schools and repairing older schools in the inner city.