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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
One of the biggest problems is that they're taught to have shit for expections : yeah, you really know your shakespeare, but we're going to laugh if you even think about one of those fancy private colleges. This happens in poor rural districts as well.
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It happens in not poor, suburban-like districts, too (as Adder noted). I was subjected to a presentation for the "smart kids" where one of the counselors was discussing for us our options if we neither scored a 19 on the ACT nor graduated in the top half of the class (of ~400). Might have been the biggest waste of time I had in HS.
And, on the "some good schools" in urban districts front, they almost all do have some. Chicago has a bunch K-8, but at HS, it's all selective enrollment, with a couple partial exceptions, in the category of "not godawful". Anyone who can remotely afford it, and doesn't get kids into selective enrollment, goes private or moves to the 'burbs for HS. The selective enrollment HS's, tho, are good enough that people lie about living *in* the city to try to get their kids in, so it's really a gigantic contrast between the fortunate and everyone else.
