[quote=esmith][quote=urbanrealtor]
So let me ask, what demographics do imply a good school to you?[/quote]
I’ve already agreed with you – you can’t identify a good school merely through racial profiling. I think you’ll agree that good schools rarely have less than 25% of whites+asians, more than 25% of blacks, or more than 50% free lunches. Three independent red flags. Also it’s insightful to check the percentage of students with college graduate parent(s). County average: 37%. Torrey Pines High: 88%. Mira Mesa High & San Marcos High: 36%. Lincoln High: 15%.
[quote]
In my line of work (and as a Realtor married to a teacher) I have found that scholastic achievement is really more of an indicator than racial profiling.
Would you disagree?
[/quote]
No. What’s your point?[/quote]
Your comment is contradictory. You have stated that you don’t believe in the benefit of ethnicity as a consideration yet point at those ethnic considerations as an illustrative “red flag”.
Perhaps the fact that I check the hispanic box and have primarily African-American neighbors colors my opinion. However, I don’t see the physical or ethnic makeup a valid or valuable consideration for scholastic performance prediction. Honestly, I don’t even see parent’s academic achievement as relevant. I think that anyone growing up in SF’s Chinatown in the 60’s would agree that motivated parents trump educated or monied parents.
Again, the only predictive criteria for scholastics is, well, scholastics.
Your racial preferences are, at best limited or misleading, and, at worst just a set of ignorant assumptions and misread stats.
