It's not a poverty thing. It's a race thing.

I grew up in Oildale California. A suburb of Bakersfield. It was 99% white. Very poor, in fact it was one of the poorest parts of the city. I went to a school named Standard Elementary and Middle school.

While at that school I got mediocre grades. Never did great never did bad either. In the 7th grade I moved to a wealthier part of Bakersfield where the school was half Hispanic. I went from being an average student in a poor all white school to being top of the class in a wealthy school where 75% of the students and teachers were Hispanic. They wanted to let me skip a grade because I was so far ahead of the brown skinned students.

Now of my friends from Oildale went to college and have high paying jobs. They are no longer poor. Most of the Hispanics from the wealthier school failed out of high school and work mediocre jobs.

It has nothing to do with poverty. My life experience proves it. Race and intelligence is real.