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Currently, everything you ask for already exists outside TJ.[/quote]
That is false. Until there is zero attainment gap between race and socioeconomic status  the access to proper education to all children will be, by definition inadequate.

I went to a low SES high school. Most of my classes was spent watching the teacher crowd control the class. The total amount of time spent on quality education was literally under 5%. If my parents didn’t insist on me self studying after school I would have been screwed.  Most of my very able classmates weren’t as lucky. [/quote]
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

The achievement gap between races is largely explainable by an effort gap between races.
Here is some peer reviewed research presented at the proceedings of the national academy of science.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1406402111[/quote]

Actually, that study tells us nothing about Black and Latino kids, as it is only about an achievement gap between Asian American kids and White kids.

The study also explicitly talks about "immigrant selectivity" as the MOST definitive predictor of academic success, and socio-cultural issues as the LEAST definitive predictor. You are taking the wrong things away from this article. Yes, students whose parents immigrated specifically on the basis of employment and education perform better than a random sample of random white kids. But that's not based on effort, it is based on what their parents do. If the study limited the universe of participants to Asian American kids whose parents work in X industry, and White kids whose parents work in the same industry, I think most of those differences would disappear.

Finally, I'd call everyone's attention to this paragraph, which is particularly salient for the TJ discussion:

"These processes include ethnic communities that offer newly arrived Asian immigrants access to ethnic-specific resources such as supplemental schooling, private tutoring and college preparation, and vital information necessary for navigating the education system, resources that are often unavailable to other immigrant groups and poor or working-class natives (4)."
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