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Re: DAFN Flight...

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From: Bob LeChevalier
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:03
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makemyday@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>It'z not just whites fleeing. DAFNz are fleeing from their own selvz...

That doesn't make much sense, does it?

Are the charter schools and voucher schools that they are "fleeing" to
any less black than they ones they are "fleeing" from?  In most cases
in DC, no.  Thus they aren't fleeing from a particular race.

lojbab

>http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-school-vouchers,0,4606503.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
>*********************** exZZZZZZZZZZZZZerpt *************************
>Students Use Vouchers to *FLEE*  DC  Schools -- September 1, 2004
>
>WASHINGTON -- As the school year begins, more than 1,000 students are
>using a new voucher program to escape troubled public schools in the 
>nation's capital. Officials running the nation's first federally funded
>voucher program said Wednesday the response was overwhelming. 
>Seventy-four percent of students who applied for vouchers and were 
>determined to be eligible are enrolled in participating private and 
>parochial schools, and more applications are under review. 
>
>"We have 1,011 students that have been placed in 53 schools," said 
>Sally Sachar, president of the Washington Scholarship Fund, the
>nonprofit group administering the program for the District of 
>Columbia and the U.S. Department of Education....
>
>Numerous problems in the D.C. Public Schools have fueled interest 
>in the program. The system has its fifth permanent superintendent 
>in nine years. In February, a student was shot dead inside a high 
>school, allegedly by another student. Enrollment is down, including 
>more than 10,000 students who departed for publicly funded charter 
>schools. 
>********************************************************************
>
>The common denominator (what is being fled from) is *DAFNz*.
>
>Or is it that SAFNz are preferable to DAFNz?
>
>AN iq-75 MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE money on...
>Supreme Court, 1954,  Brown vs. DNA, a total LOOZer...

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lojbab                                             lojbab@lojban.org
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