DeVonte Kirkland is in his second to last year of school at Center Point High in Jefferson County, just outside of Birmingham, Ala. When he graduates next year he wants to head to Alabama State University.
DeVonte also wants a car, so he's taking some serious time to learn how to work on them. Every day, he rides a school bus 25 minutes, each direction, for an auto tech class at Gardendale High, another school on the south side of the district.
Unlike the Jefferson County schools on whole, the student body inside Gardendale's schools is mostly white. At Gardendale, DeVonte says, he's making friends, many of whom don't look like him. "Sometimes we see each other out of school, and we talk in school too. I'm learning something new from them every day," he says.
Next year, though, Gardendale's programs might not be an option for DeVonte and hundreds of other students from around Jefferson County.
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3 comments:
Couldn't imagine why they want thier own district. Bussing has ruined good communities, if people want to attend a particular school then move there. Don't allow people to be bussed into communities that are trying to thrive, when your community isn't trying to.
Give a kid a chance. He can't choose what neighborhood his parents live in. You continue to condemn a child for the poor choices his parents make.
Can't destroy good schools with human garbage even if they are kids..JMB should be an example...if you get rid of the trash the schools are better..race isn't the issue here..just people wanting their school to be the best..if the kids are that good there should be a way to go to a better school..ie ..Charter school vouchers!!!
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