Parents, Children, and the New York City public school system

[terriqat]

I have now figured out the one major difference between pre-k and first grade: pre-k is advised, but not mandatory- first grade is mandatory. This means that parents have to bother to sign their children up for pre-k and would therefore seem to have some interest in their child's education. If children don't show up for first grade the police get

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[thevortex]

The question that gets raised in my mind is whether or not there is a demographical factor involved in this (say, some of the groups that tend to have low scores on the SAT's)...

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