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What is a Pacesetter, and are they ~ still setting the pace for LIFE?

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Funny thing --a past and what it means to your future.  I know mine was impacted that fateful day my parents dropped me off at Hamilton Park Elementary School.   Just a few month earlier something new called a Magnet school opened and certain type of parent overdrive must have kicked in because before I knew it,  me and a couple of my friends are heading to a place called Hamilton Park. Hamilton Park Pacesetter  Magnet  opened in 1975, with Bobcats setting the pace as successful academic and social role models; the school made national news and was toured, studied and emulated by other districts in the nation. Link   Since my mother had been a volunteer leader in South Oak Cliff, Dallas the prospect of attending Hamilton Park wasn't that daunting and or it's the fact that I have the gene that say sure jumping off the roof, waterfall, or business cliff is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  So I was able to jump in and become par...