1. My grade/high school makes the news as a symbol of good schools struggling to maintain racial diversity. But the use of aggregate racial data hides what always struck me as a huge issue, we-never-talked-about-it issue.http://buffalonews.com/2018/05/20/falling-black-enrollment-at-city-honors-serves-as-case-study-in-new-book/ …
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2. My 5th grade class (the entering class year) had 60 students: 30 white students (15/15 boy/girl), 30 minority students (15/15 boy girl). My senior class had 120 students—and fewer than 15 black males. The class size DOUBLED, and the ABSOLUTE number of black males fell.
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3. We never talked about it, or at least the white students never talked about it (the school was integrated, but the cafeteria? Not so much). Just one by one, during the year or over the summer, black male students just... disappeared.
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Replying to @JohnFPfaff
I observed same at Shaker Hts’ magnet elementary school
9:33 AM - 21 May 2018
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