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Are you only allowed to be a “builder of tomorrow” if you’re a high achiever from a high income district? That would be a sad indictment of our society if true

• a1369209993 7y ago
  > That would be a sad indictment of our society if true. You say that like it's evidence against (rather than for) it being true.
  • Dylan16807 7y ago
    Let's assume it is true that richer areas have more builders of tomorrow. That's going to be true whether or not they get better schools. And giving them better schools does a disservice to the population. So "it sounds great" is severely misguided. Giving better schools to students that highly achieve at least has some justification, but is probably unnecessary if we get all the schools up to 'competent' and have some money for various kinds of advanced placement programs.
    • a1369209993 7y ago
      I meant that "[You are] only allowed to be a "builder of tomorrow" if you're a high achiever from a high income district[.]" is, at least approximately (there are almost always exceptions of course) and in practice, true. I wasn't making any claim about whether that was good thing, either normatively or pragmaticly.
• searchableguy 7y ago
  That is probably true though.