I mean, the quality of a school is a direct function of the kids that go there. In a lot of low income areas in the city education isn't really a focus, survival is. If suddenly these kids are pushed out to other areas and the new gentrified population cares about education, the schools will organically get better. It's not a cause of gentrification, it's a result of it.

Honestly, I think gentrification is mostly bullshit. A lot of the people I hear extolling social freedoms are at the same time gentrifying areas. I have friends who are really "woke" but at the same time insist on living in places like Sunset Park and Crown Heights even though they can afford to live elsewhere. But when I talk to them it becomes this whole conversation of "oh, I'm not gentrifying anything, those other people are!"