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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The houses near the top schools are crazy expensive, with hefty real estate taxes. I'm not trying to be crass, but the more desirable schools come with a price tag. If you don't like your neighborhood school, that is a choice you made when you bought your house. It's like complaining about going to a community college rather than Ivy League.. [/quote]

It’s is literally nothing like that. 
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explain? [/quote]

DP, but are you slow? Ivy League admittance is based on student merit, entirely within a student's control. Whether or not one decides to enroll is largely dependent on whether one can self-pay or receive enough financial aid to afford to attend, so that part may be beyond one's own control; however, the greater the demonstrated need, the higher the likelihood one will receive enough aid to afford the school.

As a minor, where you live and attend a neighborhood school is based solely on what your parents can afford. No merit or personal ability can change that. And when all the poor kids are housed in the same neighborhoods and zoned to the same schools, opportunities are diminished from very early ages. So yeah, for all the poor kids and their families it's literally not a choice. For MC families, you might argue there is some degree of "choice" in that they might buy a SFH with 3 bedrooms in a "bad" school zone vs. cramming into a 2 bdr. condo in a "good" school zone for the same price. But again, that's not a choice that children have made; they have no agency in this. Within a public school system, children should neither be punished not rewarded for the "choices" their parents have made, including the "choice" to be poor you Ayn Rand POS. [/quote]

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