Imagine if you were required to shop for groceries in a particular store because of where you happened to live. What if folks living on one side of the Pearl River had to use a particular branch of Kroger’s, and not any other? Consider Eastover residents forced to shop in one store and those from Leftover at another. Such a system would be absurd, yet this is pretty much how the public education system is run in Mississippi.
Unless a family is able to move to a particular Zip Code, or can afford to go private, moms and dads have little choice over where to educate their kids. In fact, most Mississippi families have more choice when it comes to where they buy groceries than they do over their children’s education.
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