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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Classist, sure. Racist, nah. There are plenty of terrible schools that are all white. But class and valuing education are closely intertwined and it's not surprising that you'd see a correlation in schools.

I went to school with a bunch of low class white kids who sneered at "book learning."[/quote]

Agree.  Good school/bad school is in other words saying high income/low income student majority.  It isn’t about race but about socioeconomic status.  Poor white school districts are terrible too. [/quote]

Poor isn't a protected class, so people use race as a proxy when fighting for certain policies. [/quote]

That's a good point. We aren't very good about talking about class in the U.S. Part of that is surely what you describe: there are tools (legal, rhetorical, social) available for protected classes that aren't available to the merely poor. But also we have a deep mythology about being a classless meritocracy. So, a lot of times discussions of race are proxy wars over what are really issues surrounding socioeconomic class. [/quote]

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