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>The solution is not to discourage rich people from investing in their children, but to do a lot more to help clever kids who failed to pick posh parents. This
by pervycreeper 12y ago
>The solution is not to discourage rich people from investing in their children, but to do a lot more to help clever kids who failed to pick posh parents.
This is quite right. It is astounding to think about the amount of intellectual capital that is being squandered by the current structures in place.
It is in our collective best interest to develop this resource as much as possible.
Perhaps a market based solution would be to institute an entrepreneurship-focused boarding school (and after that, maybe a genetic engineering focused nursery, call it X-Y-Combinator, say).
- mathattack 12y agoThis is very true. One can argue that much of the difference can't be overcome - there is no way that a public education can outperform someone whose life involves Mandarin immersion and test prep tutors. That said, there are schools (say the Success Academies) who find a way to perform well, even with poor kids, many of which are english language learners and special ed. Unfortunately many cities (and the progressives running them) are doing their best to chase away these reforms rather than embrace them.