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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 19, @10:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 19, @10:18PM (#1427326)

    As a child I rode with my Dad past his elementary school. He had attended it in the 1930s, as the son of Polish immigrants. It had become an almost exclusively Black school in the inner city "hood", but it was still standing. What a change 40 years made (yes, I'm old and I had an old father).

    I live 3000 miles away from the schools I attended. My public schools have also become more "diverse", but with Asians. Our local grocery store became Asian. The elementary school's original trees have mostly been cut down because they were a short lives species. The private school I attended for 3 years has transitioned from a middle-class evangelical school with modest buildings and programs, in to something more like an elite prep school. No need to go back, I found that out all online although I suspect there would be a different feel actually walking by it all.