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[quote=Anonymous]PP, you ask a good question and rightfully get upset at being boxed into some category here. So let's answer that question. Beyond sheer racism, why doesn't a great school immediately draw white families? This is my answer to that question:

School choice patterns beyond preschool and elementary school are very path-dependent, or "sticky" as some will say. As you'll see for yourself soon enough, parents are in a hyper-competitive free market situation for the lower grades because no strings are attached to them or their kids. By contrast, a new up and coming middle or much less high school - excellent results and all - will not just suddenly draw interest. By the time middle and high school rolls around, there are many connections curtailing your options: your kids' friends, your family friends, extra-curriculars, your family and life patterns, etc.

I also think that there is a much higher premium attached to reputation (and rankings!) when kids enter high school. Those rankings, too, don't change over night.

Expect those changes in mind-set to be slow. Measured by that, McKinley tech is a true phenomenon, going from a school that's unheard of to school students strive for basically over night.[/quote]

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