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To: tejek who wrote (135767)	8/14/2013 10:58:18 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	1 Recommendation Recommended By robert a belfer Read Replies (1) of 149317

Why would you expect the graduation rate to be as high or higher for Garfield that a mostly white school? I expect you meant "as that as" a mostly white school. I don't have that expectation--and that is the point. I want to find out, and you should also, who is graduating from Garfield by both income and racial category. It does us no good, IMHO, of pouring smart kids from the suburbs into inner city AP schools or "magnet' schools just to skew the statistics favorably. We need to know if this is working for the 'disadvantaged" kids because if it is not then why do it and pretend otherwise? What would be your alternative to improving the schools? Getting the parents off welfare and making the kids start working at the age of 9 or 11 or 13? Seeing that we have programs in place that ensure that welfare kids can succeed, or if we can't put them in place, then end welfare (going forward) and see if that improves the situation as two partner families are formed. This assumes the data would show that welfare kids are not succeeding presently.

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