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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm someone who fully believes that some people are born with more privilege or advantages (due to race, sex, SES, etc) than others. Consequently, I also believe there should be policies intended to equalize the playing field. But SAT adversity points scheme is stupid and self-defeating. What's the purpose of the exam if the score is not an accurate reflection of how well the student performed on the exam? The answer should be making free SAT prep available to disadvantaged students not artificially inflating SAT scores.
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If you have a class with 40 kids that are advanced and 10 kids that are average the 10 kids that are average are going to struggle and frankly they have no business at an elite institution

the actual solution is to improve schools in lower performing areas to address the knowledge gap much earlier in life and really it starts from birth-5 with more and better headstart type programs

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Get with the times, PP. That is so old school. Nowadays, the going reasoning is that there is *obviously* something wrong with the curriculum or the test if those 10 kids are underperforming. It must be racial bias or privilege-bias (especially if 8 out of 10 of those kids are URM) that caused the kids not to learn as quickly. So now you need to change the curriculum or create ratios so that you push at least 6 of those 10 kids into the advanced program. (See AAP in FCPS)[/quote]

ha yeah I know. I'm just waiting for all the SJW to move to the crappy areas.  That would fix the problem too but surprise no one does it.  Seems like SJW like to hold on to "privilege" aka do what's best for their children just like everyone else.  So to all the SJW f off lolz[/quote]

Such an easy term to throw around. Has it never occurred to you that there are plenty of progressives in low-income areas as well? [/quote]

The vast, vast majority do not stay, particularly after they have kids. [/quote]

Again, you're assuming that only people with significant money can be progressives (if they don't have money, they don't have a choice about staying in a low-income area). That's simply not true.

I'm LMC, as are my neighbors, and everyone I've met here is probably what you'd dismiss as an "SJW."[/quote]

I think you are probably responding to my comments.  I'll cut you so some slack but you realize you are a unicorn right.  DCUM barely has any LMC people on it.  It does have tons of progressives/SJW/limousine liberals who have the do as I say not as I do down to a T.  [/quote]

Again, based on my own experience, I'm not a unicorn. Perhaps you need to step outside your own personal bubble - not everyone on the left is rich, although clearly you'd prefer that to be the case so you could just dismiss all of us.[/quote]

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