Hmm. Not too keen on the drinking trough in the bathroom.....actually, even in this state to rest room is in better condition than the one in my primary school!! I know I'm gonna cause controversy here, and I might be talking outta my ass seeing as how we didn't have a situation like that in the recent history of the UK (on the mainland anyways), but in a perverse way segregated schools must have had a POSITIVE affect on the pupils themselves, because there would have been a lack of racism that they meet in a desegregated one and they'd get the chance to prove themselves on an equal footing? NOTE: I am NOT condoning them, just looking at this from an outside perspective. I use for my thinking the fact of Girls' Schools in the UK. Without the hassle of boys they always seem to get damn good grades. Then leave and get pregnant. hmm. bad example. At the end of the day, there is no perfect solution. As Stephen King once said, at every school there is one boy and one girl who are at the bottom of the pile. This goes for EVERY school, so having whites & blacks together merely shifts the goalposts. Damn, I'm not sounding too good here - I'll let you guys comment then add something later when I work out what to say properly :-) (",)