If Ollie screams and nobody can learn, that's not integration. But, paradoxically, Mr. Hayes says the best part of Oliver's attending a segregated school is that it is preparing him well for life in an integrated school. The prospect of Ollie being in a regular school full-time is not an impossible idea for us any more. Segregated school has opened up possibilities. It has pushed him to an integrated life.
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