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This is a misleading statistic, most of the poor kids you quote don't actually take the SAT. It isn't only the higher FARMs rate that explain Einstein's poor SAT performance but so has to go to the school it's self. The 50% percent who took it are mostly the middle class kids and that is part of the problem. Einstein can't possible foster the level of college preparedness that say a Whitman can (90%) because of college simply isn't in the picture for so many of it's students. Then you create gaps for those kids to fall through and then other kids start taking the path of least resistance too. A mediocre peer group is the worst thing an involved parent can expose their kids too IMO and it is selfish of parents to justify sending the kids to places like that so they can get 500 extra SqFt and a driveway.

But maybe if the parents did a little better they could get the schools and the driveway so maybe the kids are simply reflections. [/quote]

Shorter PP: the poor kids at Einstein make the middle-class kids at Einstein dumber. It's the infectious disease model of SAT scores and college attendance.[/quote]

No, the poor kids cap the level of curriculum that can be offered lower by not only their comprehension due to previous poor schooling but also by being a resource suck for the school who must then offer lower level classes and focus on greater levels of discipline and failure remediation. If a teacher spends the who class trying to help a kid with a E he isn't pushing the rest of the class forward. And if room 203 is used 5 times a day for Senior level basics of math it isn't being used for AP biology or does your school have an abundance of space and resources? [/quote]
What school did you attend that fostered this type of ignorance? SES does not determine INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence is not determined by your SAT score and what you qualify as a good college. Intelligence has to do with your capacity to learn not just what you have been taught in school and being a sheep herded down your high school to ivy league -- rat race job so-called success pipeline. And I would much rather my kid not attend school with anyone whose parents are anything like you. I feel sorry for your kids.[/quote]

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