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When people on forums like these comment or inquire about crime rates, school test scores, and percent of kids on free school lunches, in different places is this often racist code speak for "how ethnic" those places are?
When people on forums like these comment or inquire about crime rates, school test scores, and percent of kids on free school lunches, in different places is this often racist code speak for "how ethnic" those places are?
Are you assuming that test scores, crime rates and socio-economic status are tied to ethnicity??
When people on forums like these comment or inquire about crime rates, school test scores, and percent of kids on free school lunches, in different places is this often racist code speak for "how ethnic" those places are?
Are you assuming that test scores, crime rates and socio-economic status are tied to ethnicity??
To answer your question honestlly, where I live there is a close correlation, yes. I assume that would be true in many other urban areas. I live in a very ethnically diverse area with excellent public schools, one of the best systems in the nation, and yet a lot of white parents send their kids to private schools, which seems strange.
To answer your question honestlly, where I live there is a close correlation, yes. I assume that would be true in many other urban areas. I live in a very ethnically diverse area with excellent public schools, one of the best systems in the nation, and yet a lot of white parents send their kids to private schools, which seems strange.
Hmm, I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you suggesting that they schools are excellent because they are diverse? And why would white parents not want to send their kids to schools that are rated so highly? That does seem strange to me.
Hmm, I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you suggesting that they schools are excellent because they are diverse? And why would white parents not want to send their kids to schools that are rated so highly? That does seem strange to me.
The schools are excellent because we have great teachers, small class sizes, excellent facilities and extra-curricular programs and good parental involvement. The schools are very well funded and a lot of the students end up going to good universities. However, it's frustrating to hear them run down because the test scores aren't as high as in other less diverse areas, mainly because we have more kids from challenging home environments or who have difficulty with English because they're recent immigrants. I suspect that the reason some parents don't send their kids there is they want them in a homogeneous (read all white) environment and they're afraid their kids will fall in with what they perceive as "the wrong element". They seem to be the same ones I hear worried about "gangs", which if they existed probably wouldn't even want their kids involved with them.
Two words for you --- white trash. And heres two more for you -- meth lab.
Crime comes in all ethnicities and I don't think its racist or whatever to want to live in a safer neighborhood.
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