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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That said, when it comes to these decisions, poor people tend to figure out what the best option is--especially for important shit like this. (Not all of course.) But if you want to figure out just how invested poor people become and how they educate themselves, go to a community board meeting in the poorest neighborhood in any city when an announcement has been made that a certain percentage of students in that neighborhood are eligible to attend an excellent school in another. Best believe the complex application process has been mastered by those parents and the questions being asked are sophisticated.
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I know there is a decent percentage of poor people that know their options and wait in line and fight to get the best. I'm not worried about them. Remember agreeing that it sucks when motivated parents get their kids out of poor schools but it destroys things for those who are left? The ones who are not the people who get out, the 50% of kids in Detroit who drop out of HS, we are not talking about motivated/educated people making wise decisions. I guess I would have thought it would have been more idiot proof.
