Last Fall the State of Missouri gave the lie to the idea that racism was just about color. Hundreds of mostly poor African-American students had been able to use a Missouri law to transfer out of failing schools to much wealthier, better-performing schools close to their homes. Now they are being sent back because their home districts can not afford the costs of the transfer. MONEY RULES!
The costs for the one district, about 97% black and whose student body is deeply impoverished, forced the state legislature to appropriate supplemental funding . However, the well-off Francis Howell district announced that they would no longer accept incoming transfer students and that about 400 students who had previously transferred to the district this school year would no longer be welcomed.
“FHSD has consistently held the belief that transferring students from an unaccredited school district is not the solution to improving struggling schools and that the funds spent on tuition and transportation for transfer students can be more effectively spent on educating the whole Normandy student population,” read a statement released by the Francis Howell School District.
“Children have a right and a need to have quality schools in their neighborhood.”
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