It isn’t little poor Black latino kids you need to worry about. It’s the Jr. High age and up when it starts to get a little scary. My wife taught in this kind of school back in Ohio, and trust me their are a ton of good people in the inner city, and she kind of misses that school. However had we stayed there, she didn’t like it quite enough for her to put her own kids into that school.

The reality is most people are safe if the parents are involved. Howard Stern often talks about being pissed at his parents for moving him into a 90% black school for “enrichment”. He got his ass kicked a lot.

One of her good kids (some would call poor white trash), got shot and killed recently, over some boyfriend stuff. Some gang-banging girl, pissed at some other girl over a boy, (two sista’s getting after it) one pulls out a pistol, misses and hits the other girl. I think that’s the kind of thing that ultimately kept us out. You can have easily have the wrong friends, or be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

However if one is willing to work at it, they can get a good education anywhere, with alternative schools, magnet schools, etc.