Is it common for "bad" schools to be in more impoverished neighborhoods and if so is that fair? What do you think?

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Coming from New York, I have noticed that many of the schools with "bad" reps tend to be in more impoverished neighborhoods and many of the students simply end up going to the schools in their district unaware of the "better" schools out there because they are so far. Is this fair, do you notice these similar issues in your neighborhoods? Let us know! - Your Friendly DoSomething Intern!

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giantsvic160 says:
 

while its not a good thing, it makes sense. the families tax money goes to their school, and if the neighborhood is from a poorer area, the school would get less money. a solution to this is to mix up the kids from different areas, spreading the money around and diversifying the astudents. i believe this was tried in new rochelle and was successful.

 
ddiaz says:
 

I believe it is very common for impoverished neighborhoods to have bad schools. The low-economic standards of these communities struggle to apply the necessities for students to receive a proper education. As a society we must make it an issue to invest more in impoverished communities for the sake of the American dream. Many times has our society ignored these communities. It is time to pay attention to these communities in order for our country to progress.

 
Tazzyken says:
 

The entire issue of worse schools lying in impoverished neighborhoods is because of the fundamentals of capitalism. Capitalism is a system designed to keep the rich in power, with the poorer working class in relative poverty.

This is the reason for poorer education in worse neighborhoods, as the working classes have less money to invest in education. The upper classes won't invest money in the working classes, because who in their right mind, pays for someone to become their competition. Poorer schools are the means to keep the poorer classes poor. The basis for the 'American Dream' is that the poor can achieve what the upper classes have, and yet, it's so hard to achieve. Poorer schools are one of the reasons why.

This concept also applies to the world in general, if you could think of America and Europe being the richer schools, and Africa and Asia being the impoverished ones. China and India therefore would be well on their way to their own proverbial 'American Dream.'

While the system certainly isn't fair, it works. And it certainly won't change because realistically, the people who have the power to change it, are the rich. They're not about to make the world a fair place so everyone else can have money.

Everywhere we turn is free market capitalism. The media makes out communism to be terrible, and yet what is so bad about everyone doing there share and everyone being equal in order to achieve a perfect society? It is all just an intertwined plot of conformity and greed to make a minority rich.