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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From the long excerpt:
[i]“ She loved racial diversity and the prospect of a “flat world,” but when these things threatened her son’s academic position, that love seemed to sour.”[/i]

If 18 out of 21 kids in the class are one group then it’s not very diverse.

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Overly qualified students are rejected every year. This happens because there are more qualified students than there are spots in these programs. [/quote]

Overly qualified students were not rejected every year.  If a kid had a 4.0, was taking Honors Pre-Calc in 8th, and had some national level STEM achievement, that kid was getting accepted in the past.  Now, it's a huge crapshoot since there's no mechanism whatsoever for identifying the top kids at the higher SES schools.  It's not about Carson kids vs. Whitman kids.  It's about the 4.0 Carson kid receiving tons of tutoring to keep that 4.0 in Algebra I with no STEM ECs or achievements vs. the 4.0 Carson kid in Pre-Calc with national level STEM achievements.  Both look the same on paper, even though the first kid is completely average for the high SES cohort.  [/quote]

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