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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The first picture should be of equally tall kids standing on varying sized boxes labeled “home support”, “tutoring”, “implicit teacher biases” etc. The tall kid isn’t tall because he’s just tall. He has more boxes. He has every advantage outside of school.  So in an equitable situation he wouldn’t be given more advantages in school while the kid with no supports outside of school gets fewer. AAP reeks of this though. [/quote]

The same should be done in sports also, to be fair. [/quote]

I don’t disagree. I don’t think a school should be giving kids who play club sports or get private coaching or who have a parent drilling with them at home every night should be given more advantages at school. [/quote]

Depends on what you mean by not being given more advantages in school.  What you're suggesting sounds a lot like an achievement penalty.  A child's parents are part of any child's innate base of support.  A parent that works with their child is expending effort on their child.  What you're effectively saying is that a family that works harder should receive [i]less[/i] support in response to the extra effort they have put in.  The implicit assumption is that they are only putting in more effort because of an inherent unfair advantage, which may or may not be true.  The bottom line is that if you work harder, it pays off less (beyond simple diminishing returns).

Now, there could also be a simple misconception that advanced STEM kids are resource-hoarding the easy STEM classes, and seeing more success as a result.  In reality, they are simply preferring the more challenging classes.  The advantage they're getting from it is that it's easier to identify them on merit, which is something that companies tend to like, for unknown reasons.  
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