“don&#x27;t care” is a value judgement for which you lack evidence. I&#x27;m sure there are a few who truly don&#x27;t but you&#x27;re also lumping in e.g. the parent working 3 jobs who cannot entertain the possibility of taking their kids to a school which is further away, not close to the grandparents who will be watching the kid until a parent finishes work, etc.<p>Study after study has shown that most of the differences in student performance are caused by poverty. Some of that manifests in e.g. challenges having clean clothing, sufficient food, etc. but many of the effects aren&#x27;t as obvious – high levels of stress, very limited amounts of time, difficulty having things like Internet access to even review the options, etc.<p>If you look at the causes of poverty, those also tend to be related: e.g. a recent immigrant with very limited English proficiency is likely to be working crazy hours <i>and</i> poorly equipped to read the forms the school district is sending, much less spend time talking with other parents about how the local charter schools are working.