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But why are race and SES being correlated so strongly?  There are plenty of upper middle class black and hispanic kids who receive a lot of enrichment.  There are also poorer white and Asian kids who don't.  I would agree with most of your points and most of the ones in the equity report if they focused purely on SES and not race.  FARMS kids and lower middle class kids are going to be disadvantaged, regardless of the child's race.  [/quote]

Isn't this the basis of a lot of the larger conversation about race right now? Systemic racism in the US and how it has impacted Blacks over the history of the US. It is messy and hard to trace. It does not explain everything but does point to how an education gap developed and now is widening. And how do you solve that? 
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A lot of the racial education gap is based on poverty.  But, making it easier for wealthier URMs with educated parents to get into programs like AAP will not help anything.  If they want to be equitable and help fix the education gap, then AAP should give a boost to poorer kids who seem bright, rather than to wealthy URMs who are receiving a ton of enrichment.   They would in turn still be targeting more URMs for services, since the poverty rate is generally higher for URMs than it is for whites or Asians.    [/quote]

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