Jesus Christ this is dark: colleges buy low-scoring SAT names from the College Board, and then *encourage students to apply knowing they will reject them* to boost their selectivity rating. One of a million kinds of perfectly legal ways poor people are fucked over every day.
Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, this country has parents who care about their next hit of heroin or check than their kids. Also, a lot of parents are themselves unable to teach this stuff because they don't know it. Therefore, we can either do what should be a parents
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responsibility or we can have a society where 25% of the population can't succeed because they lack basic skills. And this 25% will go on to have kids, and is even economically invented (govt money) to, so the cycle perpetuates. I'd rather have this class instead of literature.
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agreed re: 1, that's low-class move. On 2... I tend to think it's parents' responsibility to get their kids ready for life. We do outsource academics to schools, but we shouldn't rely on random people to teach our kids how to succeed in life. So it's not school's job.