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The TAL story had more than a 1,000 kids whose parents enforced education to the extent of putting them a bus to ride 30 miles twice a day.  How is that not "working for it"?  
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Putting your kid on the bus is not "working for it".

The reporter didn't tells us what happened after.  She didn't say how well the kids did in the new school (besides the honor student, who is an outlier). Were they failing there?  Did they improve?  Was there violence? Anyone dropped out?  Did it affect the grades of the white students? Did it drop the school's rating?  Did the enrollment fall?
We don't know.  It's a very narrow sighted story.

My DH went through integration in the 70s.  When they busing black kids into his white school there was a lot of violence.[/quote]

The child waking up at 4:00/4:30 am to catch the 5:45am bus is damn sure working for it! And so is the parent making sure that child is up, fed and ready on time to catch the bus!

In the podcast we are told test scores did not decline at the transfer school. The only violence mentioned was about the nasty names one of the white students called one of the AA students. And the reason we don't get further info is b/c the state ended the transfers and had the AA students shipped back to Normandy![/quote]

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