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> I think you really need to volunteer in a Chicago south side or similar high school for a week Yup, I've volunteered in one of these schools, and totally agr

> I think you really need to volunteer in a Chicago south side or similar high school for a week Yup, I've volunteered in one of these schools, and totally agree with your assessment. That said, these really are the worst of the worst. Even most city schools have far more functional social scenes. OT, but FWIW I've never really known what "inner city" means. Is it just code for "bad"? In most cities, there are definitely vast socio-economic geographic differences within the city, but those geographies aren't layered. So "inner" and "outer" doesn't describe them.

runako 10y ago
> OT, but FWIW I've never really known what "inner city" means. In the US, it's a long-used code for "Black or Latino." Not that Wikipedia is authoritative, but here's a snip from Wikipedia: "In the United States and United Kingdom, the term "inner city" is often used as a euphemism for lower-income residential districts in the city centre and nearby areas with, in the US, the additional connotation of impoverished black neighborhoods." Basically, they don't mean the parts of inner cities where white people have displaced Black people. As gentrification expands, we will likely have to find another euphemism. The basic idea is you don't want to send your kid to school with "inner-city" kids if you can help it.