It does sound that way. Like I said, this school is >90% non-white, and according to state reports, 50% economically disadvantaged. These kids are primarily immigrants or 1st gen Americans, often the 1st in their families to graduate HS, never mind go to college. This is definitely not segregated by class, as you imply they function. No one is taught to be elitist, what they learn is to work their asses off, so that many of them report college is a breeze compared to HS.
There’s no doubt we’ve been lucky with the unionized nonprofit charter k-8 they went to and this HS. Perhaps these schools are outliers, but I hate when I hear indiscriminate trashing of both types that have been so good for a lot of disadvantaged kids in our personal experience. I have no defense of for-profit charters, so don’t even.
