Reading and Public Schools in Georgia

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Originally Posted by Dondilion

All black areas suffer from what is called the "basketball syndrome": an inordinate amount of time and effort spent on sports. Everything else is affected including reading.

Emphasis on sports does not belong to any racial group. Check out the lily white suburbs in Texas and you're going to find some pretty crazy football boosters.

From studies I've seen, poor scores in primarily minority areas have much more to do with poverty than race (although poverty is more prevalent in minority neighborhoods). I was shocked to find out that half of the kids in the elementary school that my kids attended are from families eligible for low income assistance. This is a mostly white suburban neighborhood in an affluent county. The correlation between poverty and academic achievement shows there too. The reading and math scores were low, particularly for the Shawnee Mission School District.

Regards,

D-Ray