Subj : Starting things off.
To   : Allen Prunty
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Mar 09 2017 18:05:00

>However if you look at the schools in the fat wallet area (aka rich white
>Louisville) they are mostly kids from the neighborhood.  Ballard and Waggner
>are two that come to mind that are full of the white upper class students.
>They do bus in blacks for racial balance but bus them in from the Chamberlain
>Lane area off of West Port Road or the nicer housing project right off of West
>Port road and the watterson that everyone forgets exsists.

Waggener must have changed a whole lot since I was there.  When I was there,
the "fat wallet" kids all went to Trinity, Sacred Heart, or Male... especially
the ones good at sports... or they found ways to get transferred to Ballard or
Manual.  Trinity was in walking distance of Waggener.  There were a bunch of
kids that got bussed that would have been going to Central had they stayed in
their own neighborhoods.

Since the closing of Westport High back around 1980, there has always been a
part of Waggener's district that followed Westport and Lagrange Roads out
well past what you would think of as St. Matthews.  I spent almost as much
time on a bus going there as I did getting bussed downtown for 8th grade.

Mike

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