Michael Brown's High School Is An Example Of The Major Inequalities In Education

[XemaSab]

Before Michael Brown became a symbol of racially charged unrest, he was a recent high school graduate days away from starting college.

That high school diploma was hard-earned, his mourning mother has said. "Do you know how hard it was for me to get him to stay in school and graduate?" she told news station KMOV. "You know how many black men graduate? Not many."

For 12 days now, protesters in Ferguson and across the country have been chanting Brown's name as they rail against racial profiling and unequal treatment at the hands of law enforcement. It has meant a jolting start to the fall semester this week for students at Normandy High, a school of about 1,000 in Wellston, St. Louis county.

“Everyone is going to be talking about Mike. What's going to happen to the one who shot him? Why did they shoot him?” one student, Zaria Trotter, told NBC about the new school year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/michael-brown-high-school_n_5682852.html

The statistics in here are awful.

Police brutality is only part of the problem. Racism in the educational system is just as troubling.

[XemaSab]

1. More stats here:

http://www.city-data.com/school/normandy-high-mo.html

My high school graduation rate was 96.7 percent.

[napi21]

2. I hope all the students decide that THEY are going to graduate, in honor of Michael.

It's really sad that so many HS students don't have the desire, or ambition to get their diploma. If they didn't haver the opportunity to attend school, I and everyone else would be screaming! What they do with their life depends on not only graduating, but attending some further education, trade school, assicoate degree, etc. What can I, or you do to get them to see that?

[csziggy]

3. Thank you - a K&R to bring it back up

This issue needs more attention.

[cojoel]

4. That is my high school

I graduated in 1976. There was a time when the Normandy School District was one of the finest districts in the state. Sadly, those days are long gone.