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Benson's graduation rate is over 90%.  The coming school year, 2010-2011, they have their highest freshmen enrollment in years.  These kids choose to go to Benson and want to be there.  Why change something that isn't broken?  Why would these kids all of the sudden trust the school board when they're told that their neighborhood schools are good now when for years they were failing?

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