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Asked and answered.  Society demands performance.  And, the only reason racial/ethnic questions get raised is because more often than not, there's a racial/ethnic correlation - and the Shaker Heights discussion shows that it's not always an SES correlation.[/quote]

Yep

One thing the Shaker Heights study doesn't touch on is how the black parents got to be so successful.  It seems like some of the study and motivational skills  that they are supposedly not passing on to their children were necessary for the parents to have to (presumably) do well in school and succeed in the workplace. [/quote]

I discussed that article a few months ago with my DH.  He said his parents reminded him a lot of the parents in the article - well-educated and successful themselves, yet lax on their children when it came to school.  I was pretty shocked.  Meanwhile, my parents only had high school educations and worked regular jobs, yet instilled in me from an early age how important it was to do well in school.  DH and I have both done well for ourselves, but I was definitely the better student.  Perhaps some black parents become too complacent once they have reached a certain level of education that the same will be a guarantee for their children.  I certainly saw it happen with some of my white classmates in school.  I distinctly remember a classmate whose father was a physician and the classmate barely graduated from high school.    [/quote]

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