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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's myth that white kids score same no matter where they go to school. Bunch of non-sense.

White kids in Kennedy - 1088

White kids in Whitman - 1299

White kids in Einstein  - 1148

That's a huge difference for all practical purposes when you apply for college. No I do know that most of this difference comes from resource available to each family.

Anyway, when you pick a HS , you are paying for a peer group. You are simply trying to maximize the chance that peers of your kids are motivated to do well. You can find it in any HS, but chances of your kids not hanging out with unmotivated kids are higher in Whitman than Kennedy.

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When you're applying to college it's better to be a high performing student in a "poorer" school rather than high performer in a school full of high performers.

Also, you can't say that it's a "huge difference" and in the next sentence say that the difference is probably due to socioeconomic status and the education level of the parents. That makes a [b]tremendous [/b]difference, and is born out by multiple studies. I would think that a white kid from a working class background, whose parents both don't have anything beyond a HS diploma, would actually do better at a place like Einstein than Whitman, where they'd feel isolated and suffer from the associated envy and class issues that would come with being a working class white kid going to a school with a bunch of privileged white kids. I'm sure that a middle class white kid, from a two parent, dual-income household, whose parents both had graduate degrees would fare about the same in Einstein and Wheaton as they would at WJ. Point is is that Woodward is going to be fine for these kids. Conversely, hispanic and black kids from low SES families who get transferred from Wheaton and Einstein to Woodward should do better because they'll be around a higher performing peer group. That should be a positive change for everyone involved, no?

As for "paying for a peer group," kids in Luxmanor, who then go to Tilden MS and then to Woodward, are not going to suddenly start hanging out with gangbangers and hustling on the corner just because they're around some other kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Woodward is not going to be a scene out of Dangerous Minds, it is going to be 50 to 60 percent well-off kids mixing with middle and lower-middle class kids. The upper-middle class and rich kids from Luxmanor are going to stay in their peer group and maybe, [i]hopefully[/i], be exposed to some kids from other stations in life so that they don't come out of high school with a knee-jerk fear of "others" like their sheltered parents. [/quote]

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