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African American: 1090 (98.1%)
American Indian: 1 (0.1%)
Asian: 4 (0.4%)
Hispanic: 3 (0.3%)
Pacific Islander: 0 (0%)
Two or more races: 0 (0%)
White: 13 (1.2%)
Not Specified:0 (0%)
Of course....its the 13 whites and 4 Asians that are keeping the schools overall performance up.
Yeah, Detroit has some pretty good overwhelmingly black high schools. Renaissance and Cass have always ranked pretty high. Southwestern used to be the same, but it closed due to enrollment being down (the neighborhood lost a lot of population).
There are some mostly black private schools in the city that are pretty good too.
The #1 ranked public high school in Pennsylvania is located in the city of Philadelphia-Julia R Masterman Laboratory and Demonstation School--it is 60% Minority and 25% of the students are in poverty.
African American: 1090 (98.1%)
American Indian: 1 (0.1%)
Asian: 4 (0.4%)
Hispanic: 3 (0.3%)
Pacific Islander: 0 (0%)
Two or more races: 0 (0%)
White: 13 (1.2%)
Not Specified:0 (0%)
Of course....its the 13 whites and 4 Asians that are keeping the schools overall performance up.
My little cousin graduated from Renaissance a couple years ago!
But really, what happened to Dunbar and many others like it was integration.
People don't want to discuss that, but it is one of the primary factors in the decline of excellent all black high schools in particular.
We had many riveting discussions of this when I was in college. I went to an HBCU and many of my professors were black and went to formerly prestigious, all black high schools. They felt, and I agree with them, that many during the CRM were misguided in thinking that integration of schools would somehow magically make black children's education better than it already was. They agreed, and I agree that resources should have been equal but that forced integration should not have occurred. Only zoning to neighborhood schools should have been done IMO and not forced bussing at that time.
Due to integration, most of the "good" black teachers were removed from all black schools and sent to "integrated" and majority white schools. This took away the support and talent that many poor black kids needed. In their place were put younger, more inexperienced teachers, both black and white, mostly white who did not push or care for the black students like black teachers did prior to integration.
Also, and many people don't wan to admit this, but it is true even to this day, but this started the trend of black people not trusting teachers and school administrators. Prior to integration, people in black neighborhoods personally knew their principals and teachers, they lived in the same neighborhood, they could trust these people with their children and know that the teachers/principal had their student's best interest at heart. After integration, white principals and white teachers either (1) didn't push students to excel, thinking that due to a poor background (parenting or poverty) that the student couldn't learn so didn't ensure that the child learned (something I feel still occurs to this day) or (2) labeled black students, especially boys as "special education" or "troublemakers" and set black children, especially boys, on the path to criminality. Something that also still happens to this day.
The #1 ranked public high school in Pennsylvania is located in the city of Philadelphia-Julia R Masterman Laboratory and Demonstation School--it is 60% Minority and 25% of the students are in poverty.
The #1 ranked public high school in Pennsylvania is located in the city of Philadelphia-Julia R Masterman Laboratory and Demonstation School--it is 60% Minority and 25% of the students are in poverty.
The fact that it is so hard to get your kids into Masterman was a major reason I don't live in Philly. It's to the point where your kids have to test in the top 2% on admission tests IN FIFTH GRADE in order to have a reasonable shot. And to do that you have to get your kids in to the feeder elementary schools (hard to do because most are neighborhood-based). But if you want your kids to get an elite public education in the Philly school district, Masterman is pretty much your only choice. Central and Girls High or the charter schools don't even fit the criteria anymore.
The same thing that happened to unicorns and Atlantis.
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