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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a liberal and I don't think this is a race/racist issue at all. Parents who want top schools, want top schools. They really don't care if the other children are green as long as they are highly intelligent and academically motivated. They want their children to compete and be influenced by peers who push them forward. From PEW studies the highest scoring races are africans, asians, south asians and then whites followed by african americans and hispanics.  I don't think white racists would be too pleased with their kids peers on the spelling bee being black, yellow and brown. Not to mention all of our african, asian and south asian friends prioritized high ranking schools in deciding where to live.

While we may not like the scores, they are reality. It s not accurate to say that scores don't mean anything. Its a measurement and it shows you the general academic capabilities of the class. If your school is a 4 then yes there is a large population of underperforming students in your school.

Here's the problem - there are downsides to being in a public school with a large population of underperforming students. More resources are spent toward getting a larger group of students up to basic levels instead of giving higher performing students more challenging activities. In a high performing school, there can be 2-3 compacted math classes and only one regular math class. In a lower performing school, there may be no compacted math class available for a capable students because there are not enough other students to fill a class. Higher performing students do their homework, answer questions in class, come prepared and aren't disruptive. Many parents believe that having peers with these traits is better for their kids. [/quote]

You can argue that, but until we have a test case of a school that is both higher performing AND has more black and Hispanic kids than its neighbor schools, I can argue that this is absolutely about race. Otherwise this is all hypothetical and white kids just *happen* to be the significant majority in every school you think is okay.[/quote]

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