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[quote=Anonymous]I find ACPS's argument that building a 2nd high school is "racist" to be utterly stupid. If this mattered so much, why do they permit 2 middle schools to exist ?

Do they genuinely believe that having 1 large HS of nearly 5k students has resulted in some form of utopian society ? This is so mind boggling.

The city desperately needs a new HS. Build a new one that feeds from Hammond, and have TC feed from GWMS. It simply does not matter if 1 side of the city has different socio-economics than the other side of the city. ACPS can work on ensuring that both high schools have the same resources provided to them.

Fwiw, I'm a non white person who graduated from TC (in the past decade) and from my experience there's not a significantly obvious achievement gap in students from 1 side of the city compared to the other. AP and Honor classes were around 50% white/ 50% non-white. The majority of the non-white students in these classes were from immigrant working class families on the west side; whereas the white students were from the typical UMC areas of the east side.

As someone who came in from Hammond, the one noticeable gap was between the White students and Black/Hispanic kids from GWMS. I learned throughout the years that most of these students grew up in rough areas such as the Berg, and perhaps explains their outcomes. Unfortunately, most of the school violence emanated from this population.

This may be a very controversial thing for many liberals, but the fact of the matter is that some communities, regardless of race or income level, have a higher regard for education than others. [/quote]

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