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cities and you see areas-- neighborhoods after neighborhoods in which the families have gone beyond child-bearing age and they have built schools for a certain population of school-attending children, and within a generation or so it's changed and the schools are under-populated. That problem would be resolved if you had schools that were serving large neighborhoods, you know, many neighborhoods. And it would be very economical, comparatively much more economical.
In such a park you'd have probably have a mix, not only of thevarious levels, but going on to more academic pursuits and so forth.
Absolutely. But that's another one of my unrealism. But early in the desegregation discussion, a number of people, when we were optimistic, were talking about educational parks. But it was too rational.
Do you think it will always be too rational or do you think maybe in a practical sense it's just premature? That is, in a probational sense.
I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know how deep the American white's attitude is towards isolating his children, and I don't know how high a cost he's willing to pay to inflict this on his children. I really don't.
Would your concept of an educational park include more interaction
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