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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real privilege on academic is intelligence. Who should be responsible for your lacking of intelligence? You can make it up if you are willing to be diligent. The reality is, those people who speak loud about the academic privilege are those who have neither intelligence nor diligence. [/quote]

You are such a smug jerk.  You have no idea others’ IQ.  Justify yourself however you need to.  Just because your kid has been prepping since pre-k does not mean they are intelligent. And the problem that you fail to acknowledge is that there are some people who don’t have the privilege to do that. Get out of your little insular world and try to stand in someone else’s shoes for a minute.  It’s not that everyone else is lazy and stupid.  Other people have different circumstances that you know nothing about.  Try, just try to imagine that someone else may be in a different situation.[/quote]

No matter in what circumstances, responsible people should do their part well first before trying to pull others back.
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Says the person of privilege who has never suffered.  Nobody is trying to pull you back.  [b]They are trying to help those who are disadvantaged and need a little help to get to the same place.[/b]  Don’t we want a society where all kids are well educated or do you just care about your own?  Never mind.  Don’t answer.  I already know the answer.[/quote]
Cool, but they aren't achieving that.  The main URMs who are benefitting are wealthy black African immigrants with educated parents and wealthy white Europeans of Spanish ancestry (Yay.  We're rewarding the white colonizers with URM perks alongside the people they oppressed!)  White people may be patting themselves on the head for promoting diversity, but they aren't doing anything to help the people who have historically been oppressed and exploited.  Case in point:  At my kids' school, the upper middle class white kid with parents who are lawyers who happened to have a grandparent born in Spain got invited to Young Scholars, since she was Hispanic.  The lower middle class Chinese ethnic minority Muslim girl whose family came here as refugees was not invited to Young Scholars, since she's a privileged Asian by white people standards.  [/quote]

So let’s find the right solution that helps the people it should.  What do you think that is?[/quote]
I'd improve funding for Young Scholars and update the selection criteria to identify kids who need the help.  Kids who are FARMS, are lower middle class but not FARMS, have parents who do not have college degrees, have only one parent figure in their lives, or are part of a historically repressed group (people of Native American or Native Central/South American ancestry and people of African American ancestry - not including white Hispanics or Black Immigrants) would be the kids I would target for extra programming.  I'd probably include refugees in the repressed people group.  Free after school tutoring, summer programs, and ECs would be a part of the program.

The only true solution, though, is to lift people out of poverty.  Our country lacks the will to do so, and instead would rather slap a band-aid on this gaping wound.  Letting a handful more black kids into elite magnet programs gives people the warm fuzzies, but it doesn't do anything to address the deep problems causing the achievement gap.[/quote]

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