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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on how you define good/bad schools right? Define them by test scores, parent involvement, teaching quality? Then that isn't racist.
Base it on the racial make up of the school? 
That would racism.

Can we stop canceling words and phrases now? [/quote]

And stop with judging people for being "classist." There is plenty of literature demonstrating the challenges faced by students and teachers at high-poverty schools. These challenges are reasons why people want to balance schools by SES to make sure that there aren't certain schools with highly concentrated poverty, which creates another obstacle to the success of economically disadvantaged students.

You can't argue for change by noting that schools with highly concentrated poverty tend to have characteristics that are less desirable for student success, including higher levels of student absenteeism, less experienced teachers, less stability, and less parental involvement, and then say that it's "classist" to worry about sending your child to a high-poverty school. [/quote]

Meh, but plenty of people will say a school that's 10-20% FARMS is "high poverty" as an excuse for why they don't want their kids to attend. The majority of research usually sets 30-40% as the threshold for where those problematic effects of concentrated poverty really take hold. If people were actually worrying about sending their kids to a true high-poverty school you'd have a point, but most of the time that's not the case.[/quote]

No, thank you. [/quote]

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