re: Private HS's recruiting and giving scholarships competing with public schools

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I've no doubt our public schools would be better if not for the local white flight Catholic school.

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I'm sure you are correct. In fact I sympathize with you in that manner. But there's a reason why "white flight" occurred. In the North it's always been accepted that blacks live in black areas, whites live in white areas and Puerto Ricans live in Spanish areas. That's how the boroughs of New York got started, people left the city, some moved to Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, etc. when I lived in Ohio, I worked with a guy from Texas and he asked me how people get away with living in segregated neighborhoods? I told him that people up here choose to live with who they want. It's not about breaking the law when you see separate neighborhoods. He didn't grasp the concept.