Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Segregation today caused not by white power, but by poor schools

Segregation today caused not by white power, but by poor schools: "It was about a Bermuda born Bermudian doctor - a black Cox's Hill 'bye - who was excelling at John's Hopkins Medicine. Now forty-three, he'd received his high school education at Warwick Academy. That means that he did his twelve GCE O-Levels at Warwick Academy around 1981. In 1981, Warwick Academy was a PUBLIC SCHOOL. From the late 1970s to 1992, Warwick Academy was as open to the public as was the Berkeley Institute. The only barrier to entry was academic excellence because both schools - Berkeley and Warwick - used similar test and exam results as the selector for their student bodies. In order for any PUBLIC SCHOOL student to get into either school, that student had to be in the top quarter of his or her class. So entry was based entirely on academic performance. Not money. Not race. In 1992, for a variety of reasons, Warwick Academy opted to return to its 1960s status as a private school(*). That left Berkeley Institute and the newly built and lavishly equipped Cedarbridge Academy as Bermuda's only PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS."
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