[quote=no_such_reality][quote=Blogstar]More people waste the opportunity, and bring it down for others, than are wasted by it.[/quote]

I suspect it’s not true. I seriously wonder if you took kids from The Preuss School, or La Jolla High and put them in some of the poor schools in LAUSD, if they wouldn’t fail miserably.

I don’t mean lock step move everybody, I mean like say a dozen of them out of their school and put them in the other, like George Washington Prep in LAUSD. Sure, they’d graduate, maybe even be top of their class, but I wonder how many would sink to the level of the school. Especially if you stripped all the outside tutoring and kumon away from them.

I’ve had that discussion about Irvine being “good” are the schools good or are the results more influenced by the average Irvinite kid receiving over 50% more instruction time when you factor in Kumon, academic bootcamps, SAT prep, tutoring etc.[/quote]

So more people waste it and bring it down in some districts more than others. That’s not a surprise. That’s why I say the poorer you are the bigger the gift potentially is. I see some people , even poor and uneducated living in the lower performing districts who do as much as they can with it and many who trash it. All the tiger parent stuff is not needed to get a lot of kids a better education . But it makes a good point that it is about the parents.