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Something tells me you have never set foot inside a low-SES urban classroom.[/quote]

How come in many parts of the world students from low-SES urban areas jump at the chance for an education and excel in their schooling but often not here???? Attitude maybe???[/quote]

Not just in many parts of the world, in the US with Asian immigrants.  My spouse's parents immigrated from Hong Kong and scraped by running a little dry cleaner, speaking minimal English.  The daughter went to Yale; the son to MIT.  Their low-income ABC (American-Born Chinese) friends tell similar stories. It's not just attitude, it's parents pushing like crazy for kids to apply themselves, keeping TV watching and hanging out to a minimum etc.  OK, some of these Tiger parents go too far and create great business for shrinks, but things generally work out well.  BTW, the kids went to NYC academic magnets with, horrors, selective admissions, schools that are around 60% Asian in a city that's 10% Asian.  Totally unfair, eh?

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