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[quote=Anonymous]"The cause is culture, namely poor culture. Color doesn't matter. Poor culture, whether it's a WV holler or a Baltimore ghetto, has an education aversion and there's not much anyone in schools can do about it. At some point we have to start leaving some kids behind so that the 80% who want to learn aren't hamstring but the 20% who don't." (sorry, actual quote feature wasn't working on my computer)

OP, this is why some choose to not send their kids to a W school. This un-nuanced, looking-down-on-people attitude (obviously many folks in the W clusters don't think like this, but on average, I'd bet more do than the non W clusters). If my kids thought this way, I would think that I didn't do a good job in their education. My kid is thriving at a downcounty school, with high test scores (e.g., all 5's on AP tests, suggesting he seemed to get a good education in those classes!), he's happy, he's got a really great friend group, and he would have the skills to articulate a really thoughtful response to the thinking in the quote above.[/quote]

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