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Maybe people should be more upset with the poor education that too many black and brown kids get in K-12 schools.  
The expectations are low, the rigor isn't there, and underachieving kids just keep getting passed up the grades despite not meeting standards.  
More needs to be done to help minority students achieve long before they reach college age.  
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I am upset by this. But what's to be done? You can't have a Geoffrey Canada running a Harlem Children's Zone in every city and town in this country. The money and political will just isn't there. You need engaged parents, high standards AND accountability. A single parent working two jobs with no idea how the system works is just going to perpetuate these cycles of poverty (with, of course, those newsworthy exceptions). Unless you're willing to support radical redistribution of wealth and a big interventionist social safety net, then wringing your hands over this is nothing but virtue signaling.

And you think UMC parents are going to give up their property tax dollars so that their kids can be bussed or have to engage in a random lottery for coveted spots in good public schools? No, the incentives are too strong to play the system to your kids' advantages, whatever those are. Whether it's intensive parenting, buying a high priced home in a "good school district" or paying for private school, leveraging connections or legacy admissions or concerted cultivation of elite sports or extra curricular activities. With inequality being what it is, there's too much of a zero game out there not to do this.

Or, as I learned long ago, "“Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” [/quote]

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