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The recent East Detroit High versus Lakeview High game pitted neighbor against neighbor. Many of East Detroit’s white students used school choice laws to attend school at predominantly white Lakeview, five miles away. (Bridge Photo by Chastity Pratt Dawsey)
When the high school in Eastpointe recently welcomed the football team from Lakeview High, it was a homecoming of sorts.
That’s because nearly 700 students from Eastpointe actually attend school in Lakeview, a public school district five miles away in St. Clair Shores. As it happens, many of the students who left Eastpointe for Lakeview are white.
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