I don’t know… I went to a pretty mixed high school (both ethnically and economically) and the biggest predictor of success was wealth more than race. The top of the class were mostly immigrants who worked really hard, especially the most affluent immigrants. All six of the kids in my graduating class with 4.0 or higher were born in other countries (not all Asian) and most of the kids I’d gone to elementary school with (one of the poorest in the district at the time) either didn’t graduate, graduated from the “alternative” high school program, and/or didn’t continue on to college.
I currently live in an affluent area of a mixed district and though per student funding is the same across the county there are huge difference in resources at the schools. My kids’ elementary school PTA annual budget is over $50k with $20-30k carryover because it is too much to spend. The teachers get at least twice a year class gifts worth multiple hundred dollars. On the less affluent side of the district kids don’t always have shoes, haven’t had breakfast or enough to eat on weekends, may have trauma and behavioral issues, etc. With the exception of the rare do-gooder, where do you think the best teachers would prefer to work?
I don’t know… I went to a pretty mixed high school (both ethnically and economically) and the biggest predictor of success was wealth more than race. The top of the class were mostly immigrants who worked really hard, especially the most affluent immigrants. All six of the kids in my graduating class with 4.0 or higher were born in other countries (not all Asian) and most of the kids I’d gone to elementary school with (one of the poorest in the district at the time) either didn’t graduate, graduated from the “alternative” high school program, and/or didn’t continue on to college.
I currently live in an affluent area of a mixed district and though per student funding is the same across the county there are huge difference in resources at the schools. My kids’ elementary school PTA annual budget is over $50k with $20-30k carryover because it is too much to spend. The teachers get at least twice a year class gifts worth multiple hundred dollars. On the less affluent side of the district kids don’t always have shoes, haven’t had breakfast or enough to eat on weekends, may have trauma and behavioral issues, etc. With the exception of the rare do-gooder, where do you think the best teachers would prefer to work?