Lee Allen transferred to the district in fourth grade from a Catholic School and attended Pinkerton Elementary School, where a Latin Grammar theme was implemented in 1987; the start of the magnet themes to attract white students back to the district. Yet the two years he attended Pinkerton, it was the school was attended predominantly by African American students. He described the teachers as having high academic expectations and challenging students. Lee’s memories of school desegregation were of taxi rides and magnet themes. He later attended Lincoln College Preparatory School in 1989 in sixth grade and described several white students who took taxi rides to school. One student came as far as Odessa, Missouri with a forty-minute taxi ride, others from Lee Summit and surrounding suburban schools to take advantage of Classical Greek and Computers at Central with fencing, wrestling, and diving and the performance arts at Paseo High School.