re: Why does a big home 20 mi from downtown Austin cost as much as one 20 mi from..

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So a charter school and a magnet school?

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I did qualify that in my original statement. They are public high schools with selective admissions. It doesn't change the fact that they are the #3 and 4 performing public high school with a majority minority population.

The point I tried to make and apparently didn't is that I think we are making judgement based on race that are probably more of a economic/cultural issue.

Majority black schools tend to be in areas of higher poverty where education is often not looked upon as the primary route out of poverty nor are the resources typically there for it to be a route unless the student takes it upon himself to pursue that usually outside of the public school available. When I was in high school, that certainly wasn't my priority.