pcarter33 says:
Although this sounds good this is not pratical. All over America we are faced with the task of having our people trust each other. This is a phenamonon that I have witnessed for years. Secondly, cities would not allow us to buy up those buildings that would house these children. That is an investment that increases in wealth (reale estate) that they wouldn't want us to have. Finally the federal and state monies that are received for school contruction is there for our children also. To privatize the teaching of our students while interesting it is not plausible. The world is not a Black and there is a value to the experience of being educated and exposed to those that don't look like us. The problem is not intergration the problem is education. Lets keep our eyes on the prize. The prize is a quality education which is the only thing that will change/ save there lives!!!

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Backstop says:
I don't wish to detrack from your question so I'll answer it first.

Here in Texas private schools typically pay less and generally, not always, have less qualified teachers, at least on paper. If one follows the logic that you get better employs for better wages, then your system isn't very practical down here. I'm not saying it's impossible, but not very practical.

Due to the inflating property values in this part of the country it is more cost effective for school districts to hang on to the property they have for future expansion, than to sell it and have to buy new land and build new facilities later.

On the issue of "teaching our own kind". I thought we were moving past that? I hope you are not implying that we go back to a segregatist style of education. Like Caster said the world isn't black and white and the schools I have been in where most of the faculty and students are black tend to be amazingly prejudiced against those who are not.

Education is the goal and as part of the process students need to be exposed to many different ways of living. I grew up on a poor mainly hispanic and white neighborhood. It was inspirational to see other people who didn't live "in the barrio" show how life could be better and show us things outside of our limited experiences.

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sapoman says:
SAVE THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
THEY WORK MIRACLES IN NYC
By SOL STERN
May 1, 2007 -- THE schools that have the best record in our inner cit ies are also the most endan gered. It's a system that largely started here in New York City, too: America's Catholic schools.

Consider Rice HS in Harlem, run by the Christian Brothers religious order. For decades, Rice has rescued at-risk African-American boys and turned them into responsible men who go on to college and then give back to the community. Yet it nearly closed down two years ago, and remains on the edge.

Demographic changes and financial pressures have led to the closing of thousands of excellent inner-city Catholic schools and needlessly deepened the nation's urban-education crisis. Philanthropists - and policymakers - need to help these schools continue their mission.

It's hard to exaggerate the challenge that Rice and similar schools voluntarily take on. Young black males lead the nation in homicides, both as victims and perpetrators; have the highest rates of unemployment and incarceration; and lag behind every other racial, ethnic and gender subgroup in academic achievement.

More than 70 percent of Rice students are black - and more than 90 percent of its entering students finish high school and go on to college.

Of course, studies galore have shown that Catholic schools do a better job of educating inner-city poor and minority children than do public schools with comparable student populations. Why this "Catholic school advantage"? One explanation - perhaps the most powerful - is discipline.

Above the doors leading to Rice's lobby, through which all its students pass every morning, a plaque admonishes: "The 'Street' ENDS here!"

That message is Rice's alternative to the metal detectors in so many of our public high schools. It's there thanks to Rice's head of school - 61-year-old Brother John Walderman, a lifelong Christian Brothers educator picked to save Rice two years ago, when enrollment had plummeted from 400 students in 1999 to a bankruptcy-threatening low of 265.

In his two years at Rice's helm, Walderman has managed to stop the hemorrhaging, though the school's condition is still precarious.

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/05012007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/save_the_catholic_schools_opedcolumnists_sol_stern.htm

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