St. Louis schools had their accredidation stripped from them. Of course it was called racist by the Post-Dispatch. Hmmm — do you think, if not for racism, they would have made the top 100?
Absolutely! The reason that there's a 60-Plus percent dropout and failure rate is racism! The reason that half of the kids who do graduate can't write a coherent sentence or make change is because of racism. The reason they can't learn is racism. The cause of global warming is racism. Everything bad in the world is caused by racism!
Actually, there were a number of schools in the KCMO school district that were actually in Independence, MO, and the voters of Independence wanted to take over those schools, bringing them into the Independence School District, which is a pretty good district with pretty good schools. Well, KCMO did everything they could to keep those schools from being taken over, from trying to keep the initiative off the ballots, to filing law suits, to threatening to change all the locks on the doors, and not allow anyone into the buildings. Because if the KCMO Public Schools lose all those kids, they also lose LOTS of money from the feds and the state! I believe that the initiative will be on the next ballot. I know that the parents want their kids OUT of the KCMO public school district.
Mark