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by Spinnaker_ 974 days ago
There are many schools where over 70% of kids live in single parents households. I'm sure you have bad stories, but it's not comparable overall.
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The claim here is that the military families are /so much more stable/ that it explains their kids (collectively) performing better than every other state in the country.

Obviously the military provides some sort of economic lower bound. But it also applies a pretty harsh upper bound, and has all sorts of other effects that you would expect to push the mean down.