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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a school in another state that would likely compare to Blair in many ways-Great AP program, Med-science program with lots of smart kids.  One kid got a full scholarship to Harvard, many went on to college, while many others did drugs, while some others dropped out.[/quote]

I posted this and forgot to say that I want better for my kid-Blair is good only due to the magnet-Whitman is good because of the student body, as is Sherwood and the other W schools.  Political correctedness aside, [b]poor minority populations bring down a school and there is no doubt that is a fact![/b][/quote]

So, if they were all poor but white, they wouldn't bring down the school?  So, the problem is "colored people"?[/quote]

This is actually an interesting question that I would love to get an answer to.  I googled it and again, everything was "the achievement gap between low income and minority students vs. middle income whites," "gap between poor minorities and whites persists" and stuff like that.  There doesn't seem to be many studies controlling for SES.  Of course we know that low income minorities perform worse than upper income whites, but it would be interesting to see the results of a study that compared low income whites to low income minorities.

Of course, in this area (well, this country actually) poor and minority tend to go hand in hand, and white and wealthy go hand in hand.  The wealthiest schools have the highest white populations, the poorest have the lowest white populations.[/quote]

but then there's the Violence Gap.  more exposure to violence or guns in the home or in family incidents equals more violence. Check the data if the Violence Gap correlates with white, black, brown, Hispanic. [/quote]

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