Will rural or suburban students understand a question about landlords and tenants?
Plus, each suburban student comes in with a $5,000 tuition payment.
But as of this year, only 625 suburban students are attending these magnet schools.
High School in the Community's powerful computers are a drawing point for suburban students, who make up 20 percent of the student body.
The new school is expected to be so desirable that suburban students will apply, something unknown in Detroit for many years.
"It would also be a terrific way of bringing together urban and suburban students in a voluntary setting."
But in removing suburban students from city schools, he said, they also hastened the concentration of blacks there.
Generally the schools serve young, white, middle-class, suburban students.
Our students need to know what all students are like, not just suburban students.
Most of the suburban students are from financially comfortable white families, and their parents pay up to $10,060 a year in tuition, school officials say.