If exam scores / GPAs are correlated systemic (or, if you prefer, environmental) injustices and imbalances, then discriminating on those scores without consider

If exam scores / GPAs are correlated systemic (or, if you prefer, environmental) injustices and imbalances, then discriminating on those scores without considering the imbalances is unfair and unjust. Race and economic status are heavily linked in the United States (https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-economic-opportunity-united-states https://voxeu.org/article/race-and-economic-opportunity-unit...). Children of lower economic means often have food security issues (they can‘t guarantee having had breakfast and/or even having a lunch every day). It is known that hungry children do worse educationally than those who are not hungry. It’s also known that when there’s a healthy school lunch program, there’s a substantial lift in educational results: > We find that in years when a school contracts with a healthy lunch company, students at the school score better on end-of-year academic tests. On average, student test scores are 0.03 to 0.04 standard deviations higher (about 4 percentile points). Not only that, the test score increases are about 40 percent larger for students who qualify for reduced-price or free school lunches. These students are also the ones who are most likely to eat the school lunches. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/05/03/how-the-quality-of-school-lunch-affects-students-academic-performance/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/... So, the people arguing aren’t arguing about "unchangeable, inherited" characteristics, but are instead arguing about very changeable ongoing systemic injustices.