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By Abbey Doyle The Herald Bulletin

Bright-eyed and energetic, the 10 students lined up on the steps at Anderson Elementary all say, without a doubt, they will graduate from high school. The children — hopefuls in the classes of 2021, 2022 and 2023 — have aspirations of becoming teachers, police officers or basketball players.

But if Anderson Community Schools’ graduation rate doesn’t change, averages suggest six of them will never walk across that stage. Six won’t toss their caps in the air. And six will likely suffer insurmountable setbacks in the pursuit of their goals.

Less than four of 10 eligible black male students graduated from Anderson Community Schools in 2010. Not only is the system’s graduation rate for black males 21 percentage points lower than it is for students overall, it is the lowest in the state for traditional public schools.

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Sunday, May 29th 2011 at 4:46PM
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Although that may be the case in the past, I do believe that things change one person at a time. It's not impossible for our Black boys to succeed in this life. More parents of boys need to stand firmly and challenge the current system of Education that has lowered expectations for our boys. We as parents have to challenge that notion with high expectation and the pursuit of excellence in all areas of our boys lives.
Tuesday, May 31st 2011 at 2:04PM
Jen Fad

Hello to All,

I said it before and I will say it again that Black America's only permanent solution is that we must desire to become a sovereign people on a fertile portion of this continent that we could call our very own country with borders to worship God, pursue life, liberty, happiness and prosperity in our own way.

All that you all do is whine and complain, am I right.

Black Americans are going to become a sovereign people in my lifetime. Everything that I say is going to happen.

We are no different from the children of Israel.

What say you?

Tuesday, May 31st 2011 at 3:58PM
Harry Watley