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Whatever the reason for people pulling their kids from schools like that it leads to the same result. Sink schoools and/or segregation.
We have a similar problem in the UK. All the work that went into intergrating ethnic minority children into the main thrustof the educatioin system is being undone by a newer culture of "parental choice". Now parents dont have to take the school which they live near ( stateschool that is) for their children. Now they can play the system and make sure their child gets into one of the better stateschools. Some parents are even moving house to get within the catchment area of their preferred primary school (infants) in fact some are even faking the move, buying a flat right on the school's doorstep but not actuaolly living there! Alll these attempts to subvert the stateschool system have led to a much more divided schoolsystem. We now have schools which are almost entirely Asian or schools which are almost entirely white. Thankfully those schools are still in the minority but for how long? the UK really doesnt need any encouragement to be racist, so I can see this adding to the problem if we arent careful.
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