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Having lower income kids in a school does *not* equal "lower education standards" for all kids. Jesus Christ. And again, the data shows that white kids perform similarly in a poor school than if they were in a wealthy enclave school full of high achievers. Since this is true, why does it matter so much?

If you are concerned with social status stuff and increasing the possibility your kid will have a friend network similar to the wealthy elite, then guess what? That aint going to happen unless you go to elite private schools or hang with that crowd. And....those kids are *not* more academically motivated than anyone else. They are more connected. And if you are in *this* conversation, you aint part of the club.

The data does show that it helps when you include FARMs. Thats the discussion we are having. FARMs in this case and many urban areas = black and latino kids. We wouldn't be having this discussion of schools with high FARMs concentrations were meeting state standards. if the FARMs kids were mostly white, I would support the county in doing the same thing. [b]Funny, though I highly doubt there would be as much push back from the community[/b]. Hypothetical of course.[/quote]

Maybe not as much, but I bet there'd be a lot. There's plenty of classism involved here too.[/quote]

Classism and cohortism - our "lily white" ES that is frequently raised here is actually pretty racially diverse and parents discuss that as a selling point for the school. The push back I hear is concerns about peer groups and rigor. It is not a "dog whistle" for racism. It's about attending a school where significant numbers of students don't graduate and the academic standards are not as high, even when accessing the same curriculum. [/quote]

It's about attending a school with poor kids.[/quote]

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