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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is the point
"Success" is correlated to HHI income and education of the mother
Chances are if you are reading this board you have a high income and education
Your child will be successful.  The school has very little impact on the actual outcome of your child.
In the end its your income and education level that matters not whether you were in AAP, how many honors classes you took in middle school, or how many APs you took in high school
Or to put it another way.  Schools have little impact in actually moving someone from one economic standard of living to another

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Or maybe their success is because HHI well educated mothers are likely to move Heaven and Earth to make sure their kids are in classes like AAP and honors. [/quote]

"And did well in all of them".  That part is significant. Assuming you are a HHI, well-educated mother, having your children do well in school is generally considered very important.  Yes, there are a few people in this demographic that might not care much about their kid's academic performance but they are outliers. And most people who prize high school performance also prize things like aap and honors classes. Other  parents who also care about education might tell themselves that it's not the name of the class that matters, but whether their children are learning and doing well, but they still want their kids to do well. And if truth be told, they would probably prefer that their kids were learning in AAPmor honors courses than in general Ed. 
Hmm.  I'm a HHI, well-educated mother who hasn't had to "move heaven and earth" to make sure of anything.  Our kids chose the classes they wanted to take, when they wanted to take them, and did well in all of them.  We didn't have to push them into anything... unlike so many parents who have kids in AAP.[/quote][/quote]

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