Ahmed in Denver

I went to East High School. I was one of three black kids in the accelerated classes at East. Initially, I was placed in the non-accelerated classes, until my mother requested I be placed in the accelerated classes where I belonged. Public schools remain segregated. Public schools offer the gifted and talented international baccalaureate, accelerated and AP programs. Predominately, wealthy, white kids are in these programs. The schools did a little better job in the past. Only the students in the lowest tier were ignored. Today, the students who are in the middle of the bell curve have lost their support system and the students in the lowest tier continue to be ignored.

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