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Originally Posted by BradM
In many cases. In some cases race seems to have nothing to do with it.
Money does.
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School funding has nothing to do with half the student population dropping out. As you said, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Those kids were going to continue down the wrong path regardless of what school they went to.
Something I like to say is what would happen if you switched the students in Beverly Hills High with the students in a Detroit high school? Do the Detroit kids, now in Beverly Hills, suddenly start to do well? No. They still drop out, because they are losers. The Beverly Hills kids, now in Detroit, may not be happy with the building and lack of supplies, but they are still getting into college at the same rate. School funding has nothing to do with it.