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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not buying this argument that people have no choice.

In AL they do have a choice where to live, there is no big gap in real estate prices.  You can live in a trailer and go to a very good school.  If you live in a failing school zone you have the option of transferring to any school of your choice.

And we still have the same problem.  The black schools are failing and only black schools.

It's a personal choice.  The government cannot make you make the right choices.[/quote]

So why aren't blacks failing in MD? Black graduation rate on average is slightly about 80 percent, which is the national average. Last I checked Alabama wasn't known for its great school system so I dont think its just the black kids that are failing[/quote]

I don't know if I would go by graduation rates especially after reading the story on lead poisoned black children who are now adults and graduated high school being unable to read or to do math. I have read plenty of other stories where schools, even DCPS, just passes them on so they can graduate even if they are illiterate in reading and math. They pass them on because they figure having a "high school degree" is more beneficial than not even in the case where the student is functioning at 1st or 2nd grade level.[/quote]

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