[lbo-talk] Rich prefer public schools?

[Nathan]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:39:06PM +0000, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Public schools that have mostly rich kids attending are different from normal public schools. Parents get together and donate money for curriculum enrichment, and the kids' chances of getting into elite schools can actually increase due to their going to a public school.
> 
> Joanna
> 
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> A similar divergence exists in other major cities, the census data show. For 
> example, in Los Angeles and Chicago, roughly 60 percent of foreign-born 
> couples with at least $150,000 in household income send their children only 
> to public schools, a rate far higher than that of native-born parents.
> 
> In the United States over all, there is almost no difference between the two 
> groups, apparently because wealthy people outside of urban areas are much 
> more likely to show allegiance to the public schools. Nationally, 73 percent 

What Joanna says is absolutely correct. Ex-urban public schools in
wealthy areas are different animal from the rest... that snippet reads
very much like journalism-by-omission.

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Nathan