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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Other countries have much larger inequality. [/b]The US has free public education for everyone for 13+ years. I guess that’s not enough anymore. [/quote]

Like where???

Please name one developed country with more inequality than the U.S.

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Most European countries.  People on this board love to focus on the cost of college as a measure of "inequality," but completely fail to consider the methods that European countries use to narrow the pool of kids that are deemed qualified to attend college, often at a fairly early age.  They rely on standardized testing (decried as racist in the U.S.) to determine who is directed to the college path vs. trade school.  Your fate is determined early. Do you think that Europeans have some magical formula that makes underprivileged kids do better on standardized testing than the kids of educated, affluent parents?

E.g., Germany:

https://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledge_detail/upward-mobility-berlin-education-system/

The harsh truth is that it is not just a superficial perception – the stratified school system in Germany is rife with problems and has institutionally failed to integrate the bulk of students from less advantaged backgrounds, be it migrant, low-income, or otherwise.

At the core of the problem is the system of early tracking which, in Berlin, starts after only four or six years of primary school. At the age of ten or twelve, students are separated into certain schools based on perceived intellectual ability. After the release of a 2007 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report on Education in Germany, it was stated that the country had “the least permeable of all school systems (despite being free of charge) in respect to social preconditions,” according to a government official from the Federal Ministry of Collaboration and Economic Development.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-social-mobility-among-poorest-worse-than-in-the-united-states-oecd/a-44245702#:~:text=The%20Paris%2Dbased%20organization%20blamed,them%20in%20full%2Dday%20schooling.

The "tracking" of school children — funneling some students to more academic secondary schools and others to vocational schools — in Germany tends to make it harder for children to move up and down the social ladder.[/quote]

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