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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]

Failing schools don't become failing by themselves.  It is students that make a school fail.

No one opens a new school and labels it failing.

The same with affluent white schools.  No one openeded on and said "this will be a good school".  There is no magic.

The parents work with their kids at home.  They tutor them, read to them, engage them in activities, volunteer at school, work in PTA, advocate for goid teachers and practices, fundraise for the school.  It's a lot of work.  It's not just this entitlement tfat the school owes them, it's also what you bring to the school.[/quote]

I can't stand it when people start throwing the "E" word around. Entitlement is not a problem with most black people, trust me. All that effort and hard work you talk about, it takes time and money. None of which poor hard working people have to spare without going far above and beyond what is normally expected from parents. Yet many such parents do go above and beyond to ensure their kids are not stuck in the same vicious cycle they are in. But when the system is stacked against such super hard working parents and they try to take advantage of a better system (what reasonable person would not?) they are labelled as entitled. Black people care about education. Black people care about their kids. Black people are worried about negative influence by white kids on their sweet children too.

Racism against whites exists. Many whites grow up thinking they are superior because that's what is explicitly stated or heavily implied in our society. When they face the reality other races are just as smart or smarter, they are often angry, fearful or shocked. Racism against whites must stop!  [/quote]

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