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There is no shame in saying that good schools depend on well-informed parents with sufficient means to drive their kids’ academic success.

That is a documented FACT.

Stop saying we’re racist or elitist  to say so. The confounding factor is that non-whites are statistically less likely to be wealthy or have higher education degrees (recent exception: Asians). Stop presuming that wanting the best schools means people wish to avoid brown people. It is not true. People want the best chance of success for their kids, and if this was at a a school full of green Martians, they would send them there!

The racist tropes are getting old and are impeding useful discussions based on facts. You can’t figure out a way to reduce the achievement gap [b]if you start with a false racial premise instead of focusing on economics.

[/b]But it’s easier to whine about racism than it is to work on poverty and economic inequality! Blaming others instead of actually brainstorming is the lazy solution.

- a non-white person.
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Totally agree.
I grew up in a large European city where 'diversity' as it's known here just wasn't a issue. Over there, the best schools are located downtown, where the most educated/wealthy sliver of population happen to live. The further out you move, the more dubious the quality of schools become. FWIW, back in the day, it was a uniform curriculum all over the place, down to textbooks, workbooks and schedules! On a given day, every kid in a certain grade was supposed to learn the exact same thing. But in reality, peer cohorts mattered, the quality of instruction mattered, and the overall attitude toward education mattered.
When we moved when I started high school, I applied for their equivalent of a COSA and commuted for years for an hour and half each way, although I could have easily transferred to a school within walking distance from our apartment. The curriculum was the same, after all.. however, when it was time to apply to colleges, all the effort became worth it.
Just my 2cents. [/quote]

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