The articles’s author does not say that “students shouldn’t be held back”. He says: “This is just an awesome turn of events and one which should inspire anyon

The articles’s author does not say that “students shouldn’t be held back”. He says: “This is just an awesome turn of events and one which should inspire anyone — no matter what their gender, ethnic or socio-demographic background — that excellence in your chosen field of study is always attainable” “Inspire”. A child who is abused or malnourished or whose caregivers care little or nothing about their education or whose classroom is constantly disrupted by other children living in terrible situations and whose teachers are overworked with large class sizes and incapable of providing them with a proper education (“no matter their socio-demographic background”) will find little to be inspired in this story (if they know the full story that is), regardless of their ethnicity or gender. Read the comment I initially replied to and see how it interprets the article’s quote as a message of empowerment about “gender/ethnicity” only. It could have been. All the author had to do was remove the “and regardless of socio-demographic background”. As I stated in my initial comment.