[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Public schools populated by white students do just fine.

No, they don't.

I live in an area where there are a number of "lily white" public schools. There are two where the students are doing fine. Housing in these two districts BTW sells at a premium. The rest are only doing slightly if at all better then the urban schools that are not white.

Otherwise the only schools that are doing well are the charter and private schools.

It doesn't fit with the template that some wish to push but bad teaching methods results in poorly educated students. It is no more complicated then that.

[wintertime]

I wonder how much “after-schooling” and tutoring is going on in the so-called “better” districts.

It is entirely possible that these kids are doing “better” IN SPITE of being institutionalized in a government school.

It is my anecdotal observation that academically successful institutionalized children have parents that have done, and are doing, **everything** that my homeschooling children did. These institutionalized children are spending as much time just doing homework ( afterschooling) as my kids did all day. Seems to me that **real** work and learning is happening IN THE HOME!