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This is racist garbage, from my experience. I taught in a HIGHLY diverse district, and in the cafeteria, the lines were VERY clearly evident. Black, white, Hispanic, Asian... didn't matter... but north of 49th st and south of 49th St, each had their own side of the lunchroom, and there was VERY little cross-over. The poorer kids on one side, the middle-class and the elite kids on the other. Race had NOTHING to do with it.

Effort, desire, help from home, encouragement from home, expectations from home... those are the main predictors for 98 percent of the results in the classroom.

(I'm less than 10 years removed from public school teaching, so I'm not THAT antiquated quite yet.)

9 posted on 02/03/2015 8:14:11 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)

(But it wasn’t the white parents that came to parent-teacher night to tell me that school didn’t matter, and that the kids were only there because the law said they had to be.)

11 posted on 02/03/2015 8:16:14 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)