The paint on the walls of Raines School in
Jackson, Mississippi, is chipped and litters the floor, snakes roam
around the playground and only 15 out of the school's 376 students are
at grade level for math but Precious Hughes says it's the only option
for her 6-year-old kindergartner.
"The school is dark, gloomy and uninviting. It
feels like a prison," she said. "Not even the teachers want to show up
because the school has nothing, but that's where we live."
Raines School, which is over 99 percent African-American, is part of 19 school districts that got an "F" from the Mississippi State Department of Education.
The other 18 school districts with failing
assessments have a majority African-American student populations topping
over 81 percent.
The pattern is not coincidental, says the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit watchdog group.
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