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This story has appeared many times in my FB news feed and it has yet to impress me.
I don't like charter schools. Most of them juke the stats with the liberty to pick who they want to attend and expel those who aren't meeting their standards. This one claims less than ten people from the freshman class were expelled. I don't know, sure. Whatever.
I will be impressed when a public school with open admissions can say the same thing -- but even then, I'm more interested in black men being happy, healthy, and productive members of society than them necessarily going to college.
To expound a little further -- if these men were so far behind just four years ago, I somehow doubt that the majority will be adequately prepared for college just because they got in. I'd be interested in comparing a list of where the young men were accepted with the acceptance rates of those schools.
Yeah, I'm a Debbie Downer, shoot me.
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