> The white and Asian population is passing with a high rate. It's not the schools failing then.
If the schools are only effectively serving White and Asian students, they are failing.
If the schools are effectively doing nothing and success is determined mostly by parents educational attainment which just correlates with race, then the schools are still failing.
So, no, I think your basis for concluding that the schools are not founding is inadequate to that conclusion.
Schools can't fix parents who don't value education.
I'll mention it has nothing to do with money. Instead it's a cultural values problem.
Jews & Chinese are two groups of people that went from poor to affluent over the course of a few generations. The primary cause of this socio economic change has to do with their value of education.
If they could do it, so can the Hispanic/African Americans.
In my city there are schools that are 80% white / Asian and schools that are 80% Latino / black. There’s almost nothing in between.
To go to one of the majority-white / Asian schools you need to live in neighborhoods where the houses are easily 3x the cost of the houses in Latino /black neighborhoods. There are few if any apartments to rent. These schools routinely have fundraisers where parents are asked to donate thousands of dollars to their specific schools. Stay-again-home mothers help teachers out in the classroom. There aren’t ESL classes, just Spanish or Chinese immersion classes.
So I wouldn’t be so sure that the schools don’t make a difference.
I’m not blaming the teachers for having to work with a lack of resources. And yes, you can place the blame upstream with policies, home prices, or something else. My point is merely that you can’t look at county-wide averages and say that children of all races receive the same education, as the OP was doing.
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