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I went to an all-black public school after my family moved to the US in a Chicago "suburb" overrun by gang activity and crack houses (yep, my sister and I were the only white kids in the whole school). Most of the teachers were black, and upper-middle class, none that I knew of living anywhere near the neighborhood where the school was (down the block from me). I once asked a younger teacher who would frequently mention her kids during classroom "lectures" why they never visit her during the school day. She sheepishly replied that they go to private school. This was around '92-'93. A few years later the school district put out a poll of the teachers where a couple of the questions were focused on if the teachers' kids (if any) went to school in the same building where the teachers taught, and if not, did they go to public or private school. Something like 58% of the teachers sent their kids to private schools outside of their own area. :-/