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So it all boils down to having a positive role model, expectation of success and the desire to succeed. This is honestly nothing new. This is why students who have all of these things (primarily this comes from the home) do better than those who do not. No matter how much title one funding and special programs we throw at something, unless those 3 things are present, then forget it. [b]Why do you think schools like Whitman, Wootton and Churchill are consistently at the top? It's because the majority of the students there have all the factors that enable success. [/b]   [/quote]

This is true, if "all the factors that enable success" = money.[/quote]

Money and for sure income is an output. [b]A human capital earnings function where income is a function of work experience, education, skills, references, etc.

[/b]Student success also is driven by stable family, reading books, family values, etc. [/quote]

Thanks, Captain Obvious, for your original insight! By 'money' PP meant the parent's money, aka household income. That's what "the majority of the students there" have, and that allows them to attend afterschool tutoring that raises test scores and 'enables success'.

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Most students at Whitman, Wootton, and Churchill attend afterschool tutoring? I didn't know that.[/quote]

How did you think they score so well on tests and do so well overall? It's not the teaching. The teachers are no better than at any other school in the county.[/quote]

They do their homework and their parents were good students before them and know what it looks like and hold them accountable. Kids like that do well most places save for the ones that fall through the cracks. What those schools don’t have is huge amounts of kids from the underclass pulling scores down.

There might be some tutoring but that isn’t “the” reason why. Just a better group of kids in a system designed specifically for them with the resources to keep up. [/quote]

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