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These schools have good academic outcomes largely b/c the kids have educated mothers - if you want to be real about it. Parent contributions of time, parent contributions of dollars, the fact that that school admin listen to these parents, central office listens to these parents, the mayor listens to these parents - and we know this because they can get principals hired and fired, shiny new schools in Palisades (!!!), etc. [/quote]

This may be largely true and those same mothers would bring those contributions of time, attention and political clout, to any school. Those are the resources that would flow with these kids and those resources are worth far more than the PTA money.[/quote]

But when those mothers try that, they get labeled as "nice white parents" and face backlash. 
The only acceptable thing from the liberal POV is to send your kid to an under-performing school and accept its poor performance as part of its "culture," which is insulting to the new and old families there alike.[/quote]

This does seem to be the double edged sword as supported by comments on this thread. [/quote]

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