(Or, to be exact, Dorchester. To be more precise, the Savin Hill neighborhood of Dorchester. To be extra-precise, the houses on this particular street are mostly owned by white, blue-collar retirees. In Boston, this is identity, and it shifts block by block. Here, this stuff matters.)
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In a city that incessantly agonizes over its racism, a city with a busing history of infamy, a city with public/private schools that show stark racial divides, here’s a fact that may surprise you: The most integrated school in the entire city appears to be a charter school, Boston Collegiate.
Every day, students whose families live in hyper-segregated Boston neighborhoods — Dorchester, South Boston, Roxbury, and Mattapan — arrive at Boston Collegiate to live out an academic day with students not from their neighborhoods, students who split about 50–50 between white and non-white.
Nothing here is always perfect, and everything takes a lot of extra diligence. For the staff, it can be exhausting at times. But it works.
[For more on this story by RICHARD WHITMIRE, go to https://www.the74million.org/a...l-integration-story/]
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