NOYB wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
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Butch Davis wrote:
Many school attendance zones are based upon proximity to the school.
Newer
developed areas often have newer schools and a certain income level is
required to afford to live in those areas. Older, less popular areas
often
require less income for housing, eh?

Perhaps this will result in another Supreme Court decision and new busing
requirements to level the playing field? After all, we can't have
economic
segregation, can we?

A lot of older home areas here in these parts are selling for higher
prices than new.


Yes, but you're comparing older double-wides to the newer single-wides.

Well, it is a sort of self sorting process. The quality of a school
drives the prices of nearby homes here and that drives the quality of
the schools. There is actually an inverse corellation between funding
levels at a school and the standardized test scores. In other words,
poor schools have substantially more spent per student. It is
generally the income level that determines parental involvement which
determines student achievement. The local school board tries to mix
things up by making the worst high school into a mixed normal high
school and a special advanced school with limitesd success. They also
have tried the 'magnet school' concept with little success.
My wife has been a teacher in 5 different states and many different
schools so she has a very good perspective on this issue.

When I was a kid here, my family home was just above "double wide"
level (and there were 9 kids) and most of my classmates were the
poorest rednecks and the poorest blacks, a great combination. My high
school was basically a babysitting service for poor kids until they
went into the army,the guidance department had no notion of college.
Today, we live on the affluent side of town, are solidly middle class
and my kids attend one of the top 100 public high schools in the
country where 90% of the kids go to college. My kids classmates
normally own their own cars that are always nicer than what I drive.
Exposure to the extreme redneck element was a culture shock to my
sheltered kids but part of my past.