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Wealth correlates well with opportunity and choices; students coming from wealthier families can better afford to acquire other compensating controls -- like pr
by niftich 9y ago
Wealth correlates well with opportunity and choices; students coming from wealthier families can better afford to acquire other compensating controls -- like private tutoring, or simply eating the fail on the exam and relying on social capital and social networks to make up for it after the fact.
The poor can't afford such measures and lack the social connections, so they have no choice to play outside the confines of the system and expect results; they have to obtain the relevant differentiator -- in this case, grades -- leaving some desperate subset among them to resort to the most overt, blatant types of cheating to get ahead.
- hkmurakami 9y agoAlso the children of the affluent have more time since they often don't have to work. In fact I was explicitly told by my parents to study rather than work. Their reasoning was that the whole point of them grinding their butts off working was so I could have the best education money could buy (they grew up poor in post WW2 Japan and were dirt poor immigrants in grad school in the 70's). Worked out for me, but there's no denying that I had an enormous edge over the vast majority of my peers.