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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the point diversity posters are missing is that schools with better test scores etc have a culture of success, now this is obviously a result of the educational and economic standing of the parents but the culture does exist. When your child is in a similar culture, they are expected, motivated to do well, the problem with lower performing schools is not that they don't have bright kids (of course they have bright kids), the problem is the overall culture is not the one which values academics and success as much.

Culture is a difficult thing to change, it takes a similar mindset to create the dominant culture , the dominant culture at lower performing schools will not be of high academic achievement till the similarity of academic success is the majority. I am not White and I think it's not right to bash White posters in guise of diversity. I am SE Asian and yes I look for a certain percentage of my own kind so that my kids can feel comfortable at school, but really all parents are simply doing their best for their kids, nothing more, nothing less. FWIW, I do choose a school based on performance because I am looking for the right culture, I am not picking high performance schools because I am a racist etc.[/quote]

Right, but in this dense area, some of the lower rated schools still have plenty of highly educated, affluent kids who have parents with advanced degrees and high incomes. We are not in high school yet, but I'm in one of the DCC schools sometimes panned on this forum and I promise you, my child has a ton of peers who push her to do better. She tests very well, devours books that are advanced for her grade, has a vocabulary that put most adults to shame, and works hard. She is too competitive actually, and her group of friends excel at school and sports and push themselves. At the bus stop, in her classroom, at the sleep overs, at rec league soccer, etc., she is surrounded by these kids.

By the time she gets to high school, she will be taking classes with these same kids, and they will all be pushing each other, and deciding which of the top 25 colleges to go to! Sure, there will be lower performing kids in other classes, on a different track. But they aren't the ones taking AP classes etc. And, a lot of the best teachers prefer working in these schools.[/quote]

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