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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school environment is a big one. If the school has a lot of extra curricular activities, clubs that appeal to all kids (sports, math, debate, science, computers etc...) they can find an interest with a similar  group of friends. They can also find this in church or other religions organizations.

I am going to get flamed here but I really do think that a school with good a lot of student with high SES would be better in terms of bullying kids with non popular culture interests (no rap music, drugs etc..) and providing the above items. If there are a lot of low SES they are trying to provide the basic necessities, parents are not as involved  and the above extra curricular items are not the focus. It[/quote]

I'm not going to flame you, but I will point out that high SES schools tend to have a lot of very busy parents and therefore kids who lack supervision after school. Those kids also have plenty of money to buy drugs, they tend to feel invulnerable and entitled, and their parents tend to bail them out of trouble.

What you don't seem to understand is that a lot of low-SES minority and immigrant families - and you are clearly talking about race here - are very aware that they do not have the margin of error that higher-SES families do. They know they can't afford to screw up. And even if you're talking about low income gang bangers here, do you really think their pathologies are or ore dangerous to high SEs white kids than the pathologies of. . . high SES white families? Really? I'm shaking my head here.[/quote]

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