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JustAnotherGen

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23. My brother graduated from Wilson Magnet in 1989

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 05:47 AM

Dec 2015

He back ended his way into the high school on the Urban Subrban Program in NY State - but it was one of the top ten in the 1980's. Point blank - Magnet Schools should be the standard across the country. Two years after he started - my parents sent me to a Parochial Prep School.

We lived in a 'posh suburb'. My dad had been on The School Board, saw the failures in the district, didn't run again, and pulled us out.

Black family in a nice suburb of the third largest city in NY could afford to put the mask on their kids first.

Most black folks in urban centers do not have those resources.

I can't undo the womb I got "lucky" to be born from or my upbringing . . . I can only point out - there but for the grace of "luck" go I - it's not helping people whose grandparents didn't have the resources mine did. My grandparents - who born at the turn of the last century were Spelman and Morehouse grads.

Education is knd of important - and if charter schools in Newark and Baltimore want to go to an 1880's model for majority black schools - I'm cool with that. It worked.

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