81.   The overwhelming majority of the schools identified as high achieving were neighborhood schools that did not have the option of refusing to serve students.

82.   The result would be that the neighborhood schools would be left with the least motivated, most difficult students.

83.   The school committee will oversee the transition next year from controlled choice to neighborhood schools.

84.   The teachers at the neighborhood schools did not expect much from their black and Hispanic students, and dropout rates were high.

85.   There were neighborhood schools.

86.   These communities, frustrated by a lack of jobs for minorities, demanded more local control of hiring and management of their neighborhood schools.

87.   Then, students began leaving their neighborhood district schools.

88.   They have left their homes, neighborhood schools and friends.

89.   They were stuck with neighborhood schools, which were often dreadful.

90.   This week, busing was news again as Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino pledged five new neighborhood schools.