1. "What happened in my town is particularly non-typical " In response to Reply # 0 Wed Apr-06-16 11:02 AM by Buddy_Gilapagos
So the public schools in my town in the 70s were going to shit after desegregation because white folks took their kids out of the school and the school board and local government was diverting funds from the public schools and I believe helping funding the private school somehow.
Black folks reached a breaking point and organized and took over the look government and the school board. Brought in a great superintendant and began investing heavily in the school. Also the tax based of the county was rising because of a huge industrial plant moved into the town.
By the time I got to high school our public school system was the crown jewel of the county and we had one of the highest graduation to college rates in the State.
Also we hard this weird situation where the desegregated majority black school was better than the almost all white private school.
It was beautiful.
Then the reverse of white flight happened. White folks started coming back to the public school and now I think the schools are no longer majority black...which is also reflected in the teaching staff.
I keep meaning to write about it.
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8. "Young, he broke it down so far that there's an ordinance that says " In response to Reply # 7
businesses can't have signs that are over a certain height. ever wonder why everything is tucked away in the trees and you gotta get right up on stuff to know it's there?
that shit was by design. shit's kinda fascinating.
4. "I think Philly was always more or less desegregated." In response to Reply # 0
I will say, after I graduated in 1997, the public schools fell off a cliff entirely within a few years. That was probably brewing for decades, but I was privileged enough to go to the best public schools and I was shielded from alot of that by my parents.
Now, many of the schools in Black neighborhoods have been closed and those kids go to charters. As far as I know, none of the schools in white neighborhoods were closed.
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Wed Apr-06-16 01:04 PM
16. "Wait...so what's the deal with this when it happens? I never thought" In response to Reply # 0
much about it, but I realized that my mom went to a High School in Quincy, FL (6K population next to Tallahassee) that was called Carter Paramore back in the 60's, which was ALLLL all Black...and it ended up being converted into a Middle School, and they opened a school called Shanks. Now, Shanks is a Middle School, and they combined the kids from there and another school and created a new High School called East Gadsen High.
So wow, that's two HS's converted into Middle Schools. What's the reasons for this, and how does it work?
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