Reply #129: Well, let me rephrase that.

[noamnety]

If the only school in their neighborhood happens to be a shitty one and there is no actual plan to change that, they believe the poor people should be stuck in the shitty schools if the only other option is to let them go to better schools that actually exist.*

*The poor people should embrace that because in our hearts we oppose poverty and think the problems in their schools and neighborhoods should hypothetically be fixed, and we have a lot of theories about how that could change, and it's not our fault none of those theories will actually be enacted into law. Anyway, while we work to resolve poverty in inner cities for a few more generations, they should be stuck in the shitty schools. It's not fair to them, but it's better than the alternative - letting them into the good schools if their parents can't afford to move there.