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I don't know exactly, but my experience is that most parents say private schools do a better job (teachers are better engaged and aren't checked out, apathetic pencil pushers). In the areas with good school districts (and there are a handful of those), things swing to another extreme: too much pressure, like Singapore-style schools, which causes children to buckle under the pressure later in their lives.
It's not that the schools are shit. They all have issues. Some get much better funding than others - clearly, but they're all leagues better than what you'd get in many rural parts of America. The issue is that the kids going to the "poor" schools are poor. Their home life is shit because they're frequently sharing a two bedroom apartment with another family. They're dealing with parents who are unable to afford a be…
This sounds like a spoiled rich person talk: it's unimaginable how people manage to survive without a separate bedroom. And a private gardener, one should add.
A mere hundred years ago having a room per family was considered to be okay.
In USSR two generations living in the same one-bedroom apartment was a usual thing.
Somehow people managed to finish schools, go to universities and just do whatever normal people do.
Once you have a roof above your head, your living conditions are not shit pretty much by definition. We all got a bit too spoiled.