WASHINGTON, D.C. – The NAACP doesn’t want school districts to cater to immigrant students by establishing schools specifically for English language learners.

Prince George’s County NAACP President Bob Ross feels so strongly about it he said the organization is willing to take legal action if there isn’t a negotiation about a plan in his county to establish two such schools, CSNWashington.com reports.

“You set a dangerous precedent when you start segregating a population of people out,” Ross told the news site. “That goes in contrast to Brown vs. Board of Education and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.”

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“We understand the need but it must stay within the boundaries of the law,” he said.

Maryland state Delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk seems to disagree with the NAACP boss.

“As a person who came to this country, and English is my second language, I can see value in having these schools,” she told CSN. “It would have made life a lot easier.”

Ross declared his opposition to Prince George’s County school district’s plan to open two schools for struggling immigrant students at a September school board meeting, telling board members “you risk having a segregated school system,” according to the Washington Post.

“I’m afraid we’re turning the bus around,” he said.

English language schools are already in place in Washington, D.C., Virginia and New York. Prince George’s school chief Kevin M. Maxwell and representatives from International Network Public Schools and CASA of Maryland – both immigrant advocacy organizations – announced plans in July to launch two similar schools, with the help of a $3 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Post reports.

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The intent is to cater specifically to students learning English, which often struggle academically.

Tehani Collazo, senior director for schools and community engagement at CASA, told the Post the special schools will be a good option for immigrant students in the district, but they won’t be required to attend, which is quite different than the situation in the Brown v. Board of Education case referenced by Ross.

“These are two school options for families … I don’t see it as segregation because it’s an option,” she said. “If we were saying all ELL students need to be served in these schools, that would be one thing.”

Maxwell seems to have the same take. Nineteen schools across the country, including several in nearby Washington D.C. and Alexandria, have targeted English learners without issue, he said.

“These are schools of choice,” Maxwell told the Post. “They exist across the country, and there has been to legal issue that I’m aware of.”

The English language high schools in Prince George’s County will focus on helping students from two different populations of immigrants – those from Langley Park, which are mostly from Central America, and a second high school for other recent immigrants or refugees, according to the Post.

The Langley Park school is expected to be a stand-alone facility, while the other school will be housed within an existing school.

According to the Post, “A recent study found that just 45 percent of Langley Park community’s student graduate from high school in four years. Nearly 85 percent of high school students statewide graduate on time.”

But Ross doesn’t seem to care nearly as much about the schools’ potential to help students improve as he does about pursuing the NAACP’s agenda, whatever that is. He’s also apparently not a big fan of schools catering to students who need the help the most.

Once the schools open, they should be open for everyone, he told the Post.

“We can not move back into a segregated school system,” he said. “People are supposed to assimilate into the school system. Instead, the school system is assimilating. They are flipping the script.”