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Those three schools have kids from "good" neighborhoods, meaning that their houses are generally nice because their parents have decent jobs and can afford them. Since the parents are educated, the children have reaped many intellectual benefits from birth. So yeah, probably a lot of middle class/upper middle class kids are at those schools and thus higher test scores. But good teachers as wel
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Principal X Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am not going to weed through 2000 posts to see > if this had been addressed but this morning's Post > article avoided the dirty little secret here. > There are a significant number of parents who do > not want their children going to a school that is > full of blacks and Latinos. That would seem to
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Suburbanite Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Most kids are just trying to get the hell out of > high school and get on with their lives. That's right. High school sucks. Or at least it used to. Has it gotten any better? Is there still an unofficial caste system?
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