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This question and your repeated reference to "you" (why not just go ahead and make it "you people") is a big part of the problem.  You see every black American as poor, uneducated and unmotivated while it's unlikely that anyone posting here falls under that description.   [/quote]

Well, yes.  In my state 73 out of 74 failing schools are black 85-100%.  And this is despite the fact we have a law that any student can transfer out of a failing school.

[quote]The irony is that, for all this talk about the parental role in creating successful students, you would be no more willing to send your kids to a failing school than a parent who's stuck with one.  [/quote]

Of course, I'm not sending my child to a  failing school.  I moved out of the country that had below average white schools so that we had access to good schools.

Again, the schools don't fail themselves.  They fail when student fail tests and don't attend and they are measured every year.  That means kids who go there today are failing today's test.[/quote]

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