I researched this years ago and haven't since, so I'll use that example. It's still true.

I got the high school course catalogs for two public school districts — one a small district close to where I was at the time and the other a large district about a hundred miles away. At the time, the state had just mandated each high school district offer 38 core courses.

The small district couldn't even offer the core courses. They didn't have teachers for the advanced math/science courses.

The large district had 140 courses in its high school. All kinds of things. It was like a junior college.

Which graduating senior do you think was better prepared to succeed in college? (This isn't a discussion about trade school.)

The opportunity wasn't the same. That's one example of what I was talking about.

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Posted by VADawg

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Posted on 5/3/24 at 7:54 pm to exiledhogfan

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I researched this years ago and haven't since, so I'll use that example. It's still true.

I got the high school course catalogs for two public school districts — one a small district close to where I was at the time and the other a large district about a hundred miles away. At the time, the state had just mandated each high school district offer 38 core courses.

The small district couldn't even offer the core courses. They didn't have teachers for the advanced math/science courses.

The large district had 140 courses in its high school. All kinds of things. It was like a junior college.

Which graduating senior do you think was better prepared to succeed in college? (This isn't a discussion about trade school.)

Did both graduating seniors have the opportunity to sit for the ACT or SAT? Did they both have the opportunity to apply for college?

It sounds like you want to punish the senior who came from the large district.

Equality of opportunity is good. Equality of outcome is communism.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 5/3/24 at 8:07 pm to exiledhogfan

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The opportunity wasn't the same. That's one example of what I was talking about.

Your example certainly explains why "broke as frick" rural districts in the delta (poor rural blacks) and Appalachia (poor rural whites) contain kids who are straight up left behind, but it absolutely doesn't explain well-funded, big city schools like Baltimore and Washington D.C. producing illiterate "graduates". Something else is going on and it is neither "racism" nor "lack of opportunity".

This post was edited on 5/3/24 at 8:08 pm

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