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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop
This is just patently dumb. Poor-performing schools perform poorly because the parents don't care about their kids. Nice.
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Originally Posted by Investing In Chicago
Hey Stevie Wonder, read what I wrote, I never said that....
Regardless, are you arguing that parents involvement in their child's education doesn't impact the likelihood of their child succeeding? Is it a coincidence that top performing schools just so happen to be in more expensive areas of the city? Do the "wealthy schools" get the good teachers and the "poor schools" get the bad teachers? Or is it possible that there is more parent involvement in wealthy areas?
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It's not only parental involvement, it has to do with a lot of socioeconomic factors, particularly with poverty.
When you control for demographics, student test scores in Chicago are not nearly as bad. Controlling for demographics when evaluating schools, though, is a huge political hot potato because it comes off as making excuses or not caring or believing that certain students can't do better.