>he got the idea from his
>bro Dubya.
>Basically the top 10% at any
>high school gets admission into
>the state univerisities. So
>if you go to an
>all black highschool and do
>well, you can come to
>one of the best universities
>in the country (UT Austin).
>It's a good plan, better than
>the the one they have
>in place, which is none.
>But it doesn't deal with the
>imbalance in school district funding.


The problem I have with this idea is because not all schools are created equal. There are always going to be some schools tougher than others. I definitely know this, as I moved to a couple of different high schools, and I always ended up ahead of the other guys because they were behind on material. Hence, should the top 10% in "failing schools" be put ahead of the pack of, let's say, the 20 percentile of a top prep school?

Maybe up north there would be alot of black majority schools, I doubt if there are that many in Florida, or maybe Texas, outside the metro areas. But like you said, noone has thought of anything else, so I guess it'll do.


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