OT: Inner City Chicago School has 100% college acceptance rate

Countering the "soft bigotry of low expectations", the all male Urban Prep Chicago Charter School has achieved 100% college acceptance for its graduating class. These students are kept busy learning all day, which also keeps them out of trouble. In comparison, public school students are on the streets in the early afternoon with no supervision, employment or athletics.

By contrast, the graduation rate for African-American boys in Chicago is about 40 percent, and only about half of all students are accepted to some form of college. The chances of young black men going to college – particularly young men from the poorest neighborhoods – are not good.

To be sure, the year's class of 107 boys is Urban Prep's first graduating class, but just 4 percent of the public charter school's seniors were reading at grade level as freshmen. Still, it's a remarkable achievement for any urban high school, but particularly one with a population that some people are inclined to write off.