Let’s not take Stephen Colbert’s segment on the Wake County Schools too seriously. My guess is that someone called in a favor.
Moreover, Colbert attended the Porter-Gaud School, a private Episcopal school in Charleston, SC. His children attend the Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, NJ. (Tuition at MKA is between $22,500 and $29,700 per child, not including books, optional lunch, and bus service. Financial aid is available.) Colbert and his children do not have to worry about “getting poor all over them.”
My guess is that the graduation rate for black males at MKA (if they have any) is 100 percent. In Wake County, it is around 56 percent.
