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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, for different reasons we did decide to "directly invest" in my kid by sending him to private, rather than routing that investment through a house, which then bought a specific school pyramid. We were worried more about the kind of atmosphere and discipline in our local school (high % latino, AA, and poor, with poor test outcomes across categories) than with performance - our local school suspends elementary school kids and has a sort of law and order, toe the line atmosphere we didn't want for our kid. So he's at private. And from what I can see, there is no racial disparity in performance in my kid's private school. But you'd never know for sure if there was, would you? Its not like privates publish test scores by race and income.  Good luck, OP![/quote]

I agree. We send our black sons to top private schools because the expectations and educational opportunities are greater.  These schools are not perfect, but they have provided our children with amazing educations and black peers,which they did not have in the highly gifted programs at public.  Also I don't think it is likely that the police will enter these campuses and harass black students for no reason at all.  When my child went to public school this happened frequently when he was walking home from school or he was targeted by other kids because he was serious about his studies.[/quote]

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