Racist or Common Sense?

A few months ago the city of Memphis made national news for having 90 girls pregnant at one of it's high schools. With that being the backdrop, you could imagine the reaction from the mostly white parents of the Shelby County school system when the idea of consolidating the Memphis City School system with theirs came up. The Shelby County schools have excelled academically while the city schools have fallen far behind. I admit that I don't know all of the back room politics of this move. On the surface it appears that the city schools want to merge with the county schools because the county schools will provide the 150,000 city students an opportunity for a better education. I'm one of those people who think kids CAN excel in the city schools. But is it really that simple? Maybe......maybe not.
But now black parents and school officials from the city schools have called the parents and officials of the mostly white county schools racist for objecting to the move.
Is it racist or common sense?
Is it racist to want your children to remain isolated from an environment that makes it possible for 90 girls to get pregnant at one school?
Or
Is it common sense?
It is racist to want your children to remain in an environment where they don't have to worry about fights everyday?
Or
Is it common sense?
My son is a freshmam and attends a Birmingham City (magnet) school. As of this past weekend, there have been 3 fights since the beginning of the school year. On the contrary, a friend of mines daughter attends a Birmingham City school on the other side of town and her school had 3 fights last week. At that same school, on the first day of school, a fight broke out between two girls. One girl was a freshman, the other a junior. They were fighting in the middle of the street when the mother of the girl who is a junior pulled up in her car. Instead of breaking up the fight, she (and her son) joined her daughter in beating up the freshman.
Let me say that again.
The PARENT helped her daughter beat up the other girl, then had the audacity to get mad at the principal who told her she should act more responsible.
My point is this:
It doesn't matter what color you are. As a parent there are certain type of people (black or white) I don't want my children attending classes with.
I don't want my children attending classes with the daughter (or son) of a parent who would join a fight instead of breaking it up.
 I don't want my children going to school with children whose parents will blame the teacher instead of the student (or themselves) for getting a failing grade.
I don't want my children going to school with a student that will hinder them from getting an education because of their loud and unruly behavior.
If all of those things are going on in the Memphis City Schools (as many BLACK parents have said). Why all the accusations about race?
Am I missing something here?
Is this racist or common sense?
The people of Memphis will decide on March 8th. Will keep you posted.