That is too limited a sample to extrapolate. In fact, most tony private schools have a substantial number of scholarship students, even St. Alban's, most of them black and Hispanic. But St. Alban's costs as much as many colleges, and vouchers wouldn't make much of a dent in their costs. I don't know about the suburban public schools. I grew up in a suburb not far from the District. My high school was 30% black. When busing came to my county, we lost black students. Interestingly, the student body still staged a walk- out protesting busing, because they would lose friends, and the school would lose athletes.
I do not know the percentage of blacks at my son's high school, but there are a fair number of interracial couples in my housing development. So I guess I could say, based on my anecdotal evidence, that we live in a paradise of racial harmony, and the color line has been largely eroded in the suburbs. It would not, of course, be altogether true, but then, neither are your observations........ |
