dantespal wrote: "Ignoring the obvious behavioral and familial problems will not lead to a solution. There is a huge white elephant in the room, and everyone is afraid to address it."

Yes, and to be more specific the white elephant in the room is the fact that blacks and Hispanic students tend to have far lower IQs than white and Asian students.

If the black children from the Chicago slums were placed in New Trier schools before very long the New Trier schools would have abysmally low test scores, violence and disruptive behavior and the schools would rapidly gain a reputation of being "Bad Schools". Remember, as the famous Johns Hopkins sociologist James Coleman proved more than 40 years ago, it is the quality of the students (i.e. their IQ level) that matters most. High quality teachers and fancy buildings won't do squat if the student body has an average IQ of 85 (the average IQ level of blacks).