School district starts classes separated by race.

[jcgoldie]

13. When people ask me about the public high school where I teach...

Very high on the list of benefits of a public education which I have always believed in is that kids don't just learn about math and english, and history... they learn to get along in a diverse multiracial, multiethnic society. Private academies may have better achievement scores in individual subjects, but learning academics is only part of what kids learn in school. If you don't learn to interact and get along with people who don't look and think like you in these formative years, then you never will. You will likely miss out on opportunities later in life as a result, and you will definitely hold a more limited and perhaps defensive perspective. The kids need to be together in classes with others who are not like them. Thats a huge part of the benefits of public schools.