Reply to Serious question: Why are people afraid to admit privilege?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "Serious question: Why are people afraid to admit privilege?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For everyone who admits privilege and wants for things to be equal, would you give your jobs (which you received due to privilege) to an underprivileged person?  Would you give up your child's college admission so that an under privileged person could go in their stead?  [/quote]

This is a big part of it I think-perhaps decreasing their children’s admission to a prestigious school feels to some people like “giving up your child’s admission.”

[b]Thee are plenty of colleges to go around, just maybe not an ivy, or top 20 school. This adversity scale is not going to mean anyone’s child doesn’t go to college at all, people! Broaden your view of what schools are acceptable for your snowflake. [[/b]/quote]

Couldn't this same logic be applied to kids who have a high adversity score.  Why give them a boost (by giving them the score), they will still be able to go to college.  It's affordable for them (often more so than it is for the middle class) because they get grants.  They obviously are students who are still doing rather well academically, because they would need relatively strong credentials to get into a good school, so if they don't get into their school of choice, what's the big loss?  There are still schools for them.  After all, there are plenty of schools to go around, right?
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics