Choice = Segregation

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Here's the situation. I'm in a program that is attached to my high school, Lakewood High School, called CAT (Center for Advanced Technologies). My school is in one of the ghetto-ist places in St. Pete with mass numbers of small-large crime events.

A few years ago the Pinellas County Schoolboard began this program called Choice, which allowed students that are not in programs to pick whatever school they want to. Well the county never saw much positive feedback coming from this, instead they recieved negative feedback because down in the ghetto with the rednecks and blacks near most of the schools were getting pissed off because their kids weren't able to get into the nearest schools. Instead they were force to travel maybe 15 minutes to another school. Choice was basically running off of first come first serve.

We were getting new computers in our moronic multimedia class (intel duo processor, gig ram, some random graphic cards and shit, 20" widescreen monitors). So maybe 7 kids, including me were having a conversation with the teacher and he told us that they recently announced that next years school officials are going to be ridding schools of the racial percents allowed in public schools (excluding programs).

Most of the "minorities" of the school (oddly enough the actual minorities are white and asian) loathe the CAT students because "we think that we are better than them". Honestly I'm not going to lie but that is true, but it's not just that we think that, we are better. We get all the new technology in the school and they get our hand me downs. We installed their wireless network through the school because they didn't want to have someone install it. We give them a lot of our leftover shit. Statistically showing the CAT program has an overall rating of A x 3, while traditional lakewood has a rating of, if possible, 4 times lower than F. Which overall makes the school a D school.

Back to the point with no percentages, the school count is right now about 42% black. Next year it is estimated that over 93% of traditional lakwood is going to be black. 93 fucking percent. This doesn't affect me since I'm graduating but the fact behind it just pisses me off. The crime rate at my school alone is horrible and has been making parents of 8th graders not look into the program. Last year alone there was a reported 11 rapes AT SCHOOL alone. This in turn is ruining the CAT program because normally we get an estimated 1,500 applications to the school, but last year there was only 340 applications. We are required to take in the best but since only a handful of those 340 students are actual CAT material they are starting to make classes that are required to pass before you get into CAT, such as Algebra I Honors. The freshman even fought Newton's 3rd law that in each action their exists and opposite yet equal reaction.

There are two different subject here:
1) the death of one of the best programs in the nation
2) black kids are segregating themselves

Most of the black kids at my school will talk down to us when they are with all of their friends and such, but when I try to have a one on one conversation with them they refuse to talk to me because "CAT kids are such assholes because we get everything." One reason the school doesn't give them things is because they will steal/break it.

For God's sake, in the parking lot my friend's jeep got keyed 4 times this year, someone stole my friend, stevo's, passenger side mirror... JUST THE MIRROR not the housing, my friend, trav, has his car showered in some random shit nearly every week like bar-b-que sauce, and I find black kids drumming on the trunk of my car a few times.

The black kids that are in CAT are normally called "white washed" because they act differently. Those are the few I am friends with normally. I'm not racist against blacks... I'm racist against the stereotypical nature of how they perceive themselves and act. I love when my black friends in CAT talk back to the traditional students saying "I am not a fucking nigger you stupid morons, get the fuck away from me and never call me your nigger ever again. YOU SIR ARE THE NIGGER." and they fucking yell that shit at them.

I think this whole idea of destroying the percentages is the dumbest thing our county could have decided, beside the choice program. Blacks are putting themselves back into something they were in the past and they don't realize how stupid they act. Most of the kids drop out and wander the streets. Nothing uncommon in that.

Honestly I think they just need to make school optional down here. That is my opinion. Go if you want to lead a better life, don't go if you're too unmotivated to find x in 2x = 3 +3. Sadly most of the traditional students are taking Pre-Algebra and are failing. The average lakewood gpa is .94... That should speak for itself.

I'm done and I have to get some sleep. I gotta wake up to get back to that hell hole in the morning.