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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, I cannot stop reading OP's post and thinking they are listing fewer black/Hispanic children is a great reason to move. [/quote]

No you are reading right.  However, usually race becomes a shorthand for disruptiveness.

People say that a school with a lot of students lagging behind academically is a problem, but in my experience, it does not create a problem in the school if the school is properly differentiating  in curriculum and instruction.  The biggest problem in indiscipline and disruptiveness in the classroom that can scuttle any learning.

Disruptive students are from all races (though Asians have the lowest incidents of indiscipline or disruptiveness)  however usually there are higher percentage of Black and Hispanic kids who misbehave. This has created a stereotype of all blacks and hispanics students being disruptive.  
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Yes, that's been my experience as well. In high school I was a 3rd grade classroom tutor for a neighboring low income elementary school. I would go every other day for an hour. It took me about three visits to understand that I wasn't there to help the kids who had problems learning; I had zero qualifications for that. My job was to take the 4 or 5 most disruptive kids in the class out in the hall to read a book or two, so that the other kids could actually get some of the teachers attention, if only for 45 mins or so.

That experience has influenced my perspective and expectation about sending my own kid to a school that is very poor. It's the disruptiveness. Not class. Not race. Not the amenities that wealthy parents at lavish on their neighborhood schools via PTA auctions and online fundraising.[/quote]

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