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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] To say it's not about race? Of course it's about race. Race intertwined with poverty and generations of black families being stuck with few ways out. [/quote]

Of course, it's not about the race.  I would be against a bus of failing white students just the same.  If it was a bus of black honor students I'd welcome them with open arms.

[b]Who wants to screw up their own school's rankings by adding a lot of failing students?  No one.  Who wants to add kids in their class that can't read at the grade level, fail at tests and have behavior problems?  No one.  Doesn't matter what color they are.[/quote]

Failing students? Did you listen to the show? The kids who have parents willing to travel 30 miles away do not have "failing students". It's the schools that are failing those kids.  For the most part, parents who are going to extremes to get their kids into better schools are doing so because they value education and want more for their children. They are not unlike you...they just don't have the money to live next door to you. Separate will always be unequal. [/quote]

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