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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kids peers and academic competition matter. Title one kids simply often do not have educated parents ego understand how to nurture a child’s educational and intellectual growth. If you are even worried about this it tells me you are an involved parent.

There’s good reason why kids in your neighborhood don’t attend this school. Public school is bad enough as it is, throw in poverty and it’s a recipe for disaster.[/quote]

Wow, snob much? People that are poor can’t be good parents? That absurd.[/quote]

No one is saying that. The reality is that [b]many kids are poor because there are a lot of family issues, one or more parents aren't in the picture and there's a lot of family trauma[/b]. And these kids are often exposed to a lot of thing much earlier.

But yeah it depends on whether they're new immigrants (in which case, they might not speak English and thus are behind in school) or because of problems. I wish schools taught English language better to new immigrants or had afterschool tutoring. [/quote]

Many middle and upper-class kids come from families with a lot of issues, single-parent homes, splitting time between two divorced parents' homes, various trauma. 
But language barriers are indeed an issue.  Still, you can't teach someone English overnight.  It takes time; and once students reach a certain level of English proficiency, their academic achievement catches up.[/quote]

None of this is correct. Academic attainment is highly correlated with household wealth. UMC families may have problems, but their kids are still more likely to do well in school than kids from poorer families.  [/quote]

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