Indeed, more than half of the students in the city's public schools drop out after the 10th grade. For many of these children, that would be a positive outcome. Look at the situation. Drop out by 10th grade, get into the street life. When you should be walking across the stage getting a diploma, you're standing in front of a judge wearing chains.
Private schools can change the difficult life prospects of low-income black children.
He also found that parochial schools were particularly effective, a finding confirmed in more recent studies. According to economist Derek Neal's 1997 study, there was a substantial increase in the probability of graduation if an inner-city minority student moved from a public school to a Catholic school. But setting aside the condescension in that term, if I were a poor resident of the inner city, I would be desperate too. They recognize that we have yet to articulate any sound moral justification for why their children's futures should be condemned while we experiment with improving public schools. As a black liberal, I wince every time I hear another black liberal attacking school vouchers.