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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my state if you end up in a failing school you have a right to transfer to any other public school or some private schools (the state I think limits how much they'll pay).  I know there are kids in my DC's private school who take advantage of that program.  It works. You can use it.

[b]In addition to that, our real estate is cheap, cheap.  You can rent an apartment in the best school zone for $600/month.[/b]

So can you explain the the problem still remains the same?
In the city there are still failing black schools.

If integration was successful why when they stopped making efforts to bus kids everything naturally went back to what it was, failing black schools, thriving white schools?

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Please share where one can rent a one bedroom apartment in the JKLMMO school zone?  I won't even ask about a two-bedroom because I'll wait a long time for the one-bedroom anecdote. [/quote]

I said in a different state, idiot.  We have all the opportunities you don't - it's free, it's available, go to any school you like.  Yet the majority of black students don't use those opportunities and they fail.  And so re-integration will start soon and white families are running away to the suburbs.

Maybe it's time to take responsibility for your own failures.[/quote]

You sound angry PP. However, I would like to ask you how well publicized is this information? Are there limitations to how many children can transfer OOB to a well regarded school before the brakes are applied? In regards to the public school vouchers, is it first come first serve as in the DC TAG Program and once the funds are exhausted, too bad?

A median 50k income is quite manageable for a family to acquire a $600 two bedroom apartment. Actually, it is admirable. However median is what it is, median. That means that there are household incomes well below 50k and well above 50k. I bet you are above 50k and thus cannot relate to a HHI of 30 for a family of four.

Finally, do you have a problem sharing this city you speak so highly about. It might help somebody who is reading this thread and looking for a reasonably priced place to relocate.[/quote]

yea, it's the south.  I'm from there.  No willingness to recognize the effects of generations of poverty and racism.  Much willingness to abdicate responsibility by placing it on the "bad" blacks who need to accept responsibility for their own situation.  In part this desire to abdicate is because the situation requires more resources than are available  and in part it is because the the white middle class in the south is always precarious (so a sense of clinging by their fingernails to what they've got).

I grew up on Louisiana in the 80s, and the racism was blatant, not subtle the way it is now.  I did go to a segregated middle and high school (thanks to the federal government mandates that creates very odd shaped boundaries for my school).  There was lots of self segregation and institutional segregation in the school (advanced classes were white though regular classes were very mixed), so I'd be interested to see what graduation rates and success rates were for blacks.  My sense was that it was more than just a school within a school and that the AA's did much better there than they did at the less integrated AA hs across town.  But I don't have the stats.  But it was a racist racist town at least in 1990 when I left. [/quote]

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