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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Not to intrude on your thread, but do you have any off the wall idea-solutions? I think this is a really interesting topic and I'd love to keep the ideas flowing.
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Real simple. Level the playing field by:
1) Mandating that the federal, state and local governments must provide the exact same resources to all schools; any additional can be infused directly from the parents whose children attend the school.
2) sending children to their neighborhood public schools (maybe just through middle school) so that they can be close to familiar resources. All public high schools in a district should compete for students by test scores and magnet programs to allow exposure outside of a child's own community.
In neither of these recommendations should race become a factor. In fact, if these are implemented, race will no longer need to be a factor. So what if the lower grades are non-diverse? The schools will reflect the neighborhoods! As for the high schools competing, I think that diversity will take care of itself in this proposed type of environment.
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