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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you're pointing out that rich kids who have opportunity rammed down their throats from the day they are born have higher test scores? [/quote]

I think it just shows that either good students don't always rise to the top or there aren't many good students at some schools.[/quote]

I think this statement shows that you don't know much about statistics.

Those scores are AVERAGES. You understand what that means, right? They are a mix of good students and bad students. A school with a lower average score could have just as many perfect scores as a school with a higher average score. The average can't tell you whether good students are "rising to the top," whatever that means. The average can't even tell you if there are more good students at one school than the other.

Then there is also the question, at such large high schools, of how much "good" is enough. Is it enough for your kid to have 50 high SAT-scoring peers in a high school class of 400? Or does your kid need 150 high-scoring peers in order to succeed?[/quote]

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