The dividing line is income level. Hate to break it to these people, but not only can parents choose a neighborhood based on its quality of schools, but it implies the obvious: Some districts have better schools. And guess what? It is often determined on income level.
I spent 1.5 school years in Mercer Island schools (yep, the same place where Obama lived with his grandparents and Michael Medved and Paul Allen now live). The schools were massively superior to the Kent school district I spent the next five years. And my attitude and grades showed it. But it was not about race. It’s about income level.
You want to be see your kids get a better education? Make more money. Or, thanks to the internet, just go here: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Oh, and I lived just a few blocks from Paul Allen about ten years ago and one of my wife’s friends, who also lived on the island, was one of the very few black families that lived on the island. They called the Crown school busses “twinkies”, because they were “yellow on the outside with a rich, white filling”.
All this report is saying is that poor people go to worse public schools than rich people, and more minorities are poor. Duh. They should watch Lean On Me.
There's truth to that. But there is really another simple process to having smart successful kids. And - guess what? It works for black people too.
Its called the family. Husband (father), Wife (mother) and children. It works.
Yet black illegitimacy at nearly 100 percent in the inner cities will double damn guarantee you poor educational inequalities. Let these experts do a study (they have and there are thousands) on how how black families fare better than the single baby mama's and absent fathers.
I wonder if there was a study about using the variable ‘education of parents’ to explain performance of the child.
Education - you have to want it because it takes effort. But if you have an IQ of 120+, it doesn’t matter how poor you are.
Money ISN'T everything or the ONLY thing.
You could give a hood rat $10 million and they'd still be a hood rat. They'd just be a hood rat with $10 million.
Its about attitude. Dr. Ben Carson didn't come from affluence and yet he succeeded.
When people glorify the gangster lifestyle, you get more gangsters.
When you vilify success, you get less success.
Show me a child with at least one parent active in their life, trying to keep them on the straight and narrow, trying to teach them ethics and I'll show you a child who has a 90% chance of overcoming their lack of income.
Show me a child who comes from affluence, whose parents are degenerates and I'll show you a child who has a 90% chance of self destructing somewhere along the line.
But the question of why the disparities in income opens up even more questions that are just as difficult and politically incorrect to address.