[quote]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”.[/quote]
I did not say that. I said that you can’t be sure that a school is good, merely from looking at the racial profile. There are bad all-white schools and there are good hispanic schools (but the former are more common than the latter).
In essence, racial profile is a proxy for two factors that truly matter – parents’ socioeconomic status and education.
[quote]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. [/quote]
Motivated parents usually manage to finish college and make enough money to keep their families way above poverty level. And conversely, monied and educated parents are usually more motivated than welfare moms.
