http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/14/AR2010101407577.html
Reading this article made me think of the idea of dumping an underprivileged child into an affluent neighborhood's school. I feel that if a student is moved from a school that is performing poorly and move them into a school that has excellent resources and is performing well, of course they will do better. I could see where people would believe that this is an excellent idea for getting poorer students a quality. I find the logistics of such an idea to be impossible. If this was the panacea for poor students what would happen to the schools in their own neighborhoods. So what would we do as a society? Would we send all of our poor students to schools in rich neighborhoods, then shut down all the schools in their own neighborhoods. There will be an uproar all around, these students will be looked at as leeches and I feel they will be treated very badly. Just like the racial tensions in the fifties and sixties when black students were bused to white schools, there will be high tempers and extreme tensions, and I be4lieve that it will be a disaster.
