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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] research shows that there are tipping points with school performance and poverty. Those tipping points are at 20% and 40% according to the study produced for the school board. Concentrating a lack of poverty has knock-on effects on the rest of the county. A board concerned with equity should look at distributing the poverty more evenly across schools[/quote]

That "research" was produced by a communist-funded "think tank" (I use the term loosely) and is of no value whatsoever.  Nobody can provide a good explanation as to why poor kids would do better by having middle-class/wealthy kids sit near them - and this is because it simply isn't true.  The only thing that your proposed redistribution will do is artificially rase average test scores at some schools and drop them at others.  Middle-class kids have to worry about their own education and cannot be expected to tutor poor kids, make them breakfast, make sure they do their homework, or bust up gangs and bad influences.[/quote]

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