When I referred to "rat holes", those schools have been there for a LONG time...I mean...I went to one of them before the name changed...it was a miserable place to be back then. My thoughts on what should happen to those schools remains...tear them down! HOWEVER, those schools are in the same DISREPAIR that most of the housing is in down that direction. That is ONE HUNDRED percent a result of how people live and think....that is why I will not subject my child to that. I live in a community that shares common goals and feelings about education and higher learning....I shouldn't be PUNISHED because, A, I am white and B, I decided to pay my way through college to better my life and raise my family in an environment that fosters the values we hold to be most important. What is happening here is that children whos parents take education seriously...THEIR children are being shuttled to other schools to make up for kids whos parents don't give a hoot about education. THAT is worse that racism! That is the whole Democrat mindset of punishing the masses to take care of the lazy!