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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like the idea that all the schools are doing a good job because the white kids have similarly high SAT scores. This is really a thread stopper. [/quote]

While that is cringe-worthy, I'm not sure that is what people are trying to say. Inevitably these threads end up with a bunch of well educated, reasonably high income parents yelling at each other. The ones from the western part of the country degrade the DCC and say things like if your kid goes to school with poor kids they will get a subpar education. I suspect these parents have very average kids who they are hoping will rub off on the high achieving kids at their W school because dammit they paid a lot for their house and hate their jobs and this better be freakin' worth it and the are feeling that is not happening so having rage black outs on DCUM help them feel better. These are the same people who eat their feelings. Sad all around.

So people try to point out, sorry to burst your bubble, but if your white kid raised by educated affluent parents were in a different school he or she would be doing about the same. Parenting and home influence determine success about a thousand-fold more than school.

What our schools should be striving to do is meet the needs of all kids, including ones who don't have strong support at home. [/quote]

Yes, out of context it sounds like the poster only cares about white kids, but the point was being made that middle class kids are likely to do well in a BCC or in a DCC school. Many points are well made in this thread, but they get lost upthread, only to have to be made again in response to a another poster, so it never ends, especially when we are wasting our time responding to the type of people you mention. Ha. It is kind of fun though.

That poster talking about white kids might well have been the same person saying that the true measure of a school is how well it educates children from a lower socioeconomic background. [/quote]

Out of context? They literally said it doesn’t matter if my kid goes to a crappy school, Their whiteness will counter act the poor results for the colored kids[/quote]

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