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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's Huntsville, AL, but what's the point of relocating?  The city started re-integration program because the black students fail, despite everything being offered.

People expect what once were the best schools (majority white) will be ruined by the influx of below average students.  The white families are buying houses outside of the city, in the white thriving suburbs that don't have this problem.

Just for the sake of this discussion I went through half of the list of the failing schools in Alabama.  And they're all 80-100% black schools.

I didn't bother with the entire list, because it's obvious.

It's not a conspiracy against the black people.  It's not that someone secretly decided that these 74 schools will get the worst teachers and no supplies.

It's what you made of it.  [/quote]

Black schools do get the worst teachers and no supplies.  The entire point of the npr piece is that if there are not enough white kids in a school, the school will never get the kind of resources and quality teachers and attention it needs.  The example of the influx of 1,000 failing kids into that 85% white school is that the school didn't fail (blacks kids scores went up, white kids scores didn't go down).

The question I have is whether there are enough decent schools to absorb kids from failing school (or black kids).  Not in DC, unfortunately, and bussing white kids into a black school is nonstarter. [/quote]

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