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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Mon Jun 6 08:05:02 2011, in response to Re: Fox News - Is Government Aid Helping or Hurting Blacks?, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 6 01:33:20 2011. I didn't go to school in my area, as I lived in the city, but we have a highly affluent White area near the water south, and north is a very poor mostly Black area. In the middle is a transition area which is mostly white, but more average, and then just north of that is a transition area which is mostly blue collar, but mixed. So there are about four (actually five, but for simplicity sake, I'll leave that out) distinct areas all in one community, and all with the same school district.As originally set up, there were four different elementary schools (grades K-5) that served these "four areas", one in each of the areas, which at 6th grade combined in the "middle school", and at 9th grade everyone also went to the same high school. When the area north of the tracks began to get bad in the mid 60's and worse in the 70's, it became more and more Black. What began to happen is that 3 of the 4 Elementary schools where all white, but the one north of the tracks became almost entirely Black. That left a shell shock vacuum in the middle school at 6th grade when all of a sudden all the kids were finally thrown together, as the kids from the all Black elementary school performed way worse than the kids from the other three elementary schools in the district, and now all of a sudden they were all in one class/school, which caused chaos. After some years of this they finally decided to redo the way the schools districted. We still have one high school and one middle school, but what they did with the 4 elementary schools is make three elementary schools out of the 4, and the 4th one in the bad neighborhoood became an "Intermediate" school. So what that means is the lines were redrawn for elementary schcool, basically breaking up the bad (Black) area and drawing the area into three, and those kids started going to the various 3 other elementary schools, mixing with the white kids from those areas at Kindergarten. The former elementary school in the Bad area became Intermediate school for grades 4 and 5 for ALL the district, so all the kids from the whole area went to 4th grade and 5th in that school. What it in essence did was get rid of the "all Black" elementary school, and it was the only way to solve the problem. |
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