1/ Ivy's league schools are privilege factories for many, many reasons. This is just an obvious and egregious one.https://twitter.com/AP/status/1105494854761660416 …
2/ My hometown has a magazine. I see these articles every year and they piss me off. (This one is June 2006). They're celebratory: "look how great our kids are doing!" But...pic.twitter.com/WRO26Qkbc3
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3/ Students from Christopher Columbus typically underperform. That school and the half-dozen or so elementary schools that feed it... ...they're a lot poorer.
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4/ The 4 out of the top 10 students statistic? This is the narrowest region of the funnel for a school that has a typical graduating class size of around 1000 people. Meanwhile, I have lots of friends who went to tiny private schools where not getting into an Ivy was scandalous.
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5/ Like yea, fuck the people who explicitly bribed their kids into a position of privilege... ...but the boundary is way less crisp than all that.
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