For less than 1/3rd of what California pays for its incarceration system, the @uofcalifornia system’s schools are the top in the country in terms of % of students from low-income households.https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/upshot/californias-university-system-an-upward-mobility-machine.html …
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What do you think educates more than half of California’s medical students every year? And seriously, you’re mad about the SAT? If you’re so confident in the quality of standardized testing, why don’t you use it to evaluate entrepreneurs at FF?
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Without the SAT, how do underprivileged kids in rough situations who are good test-takers rise up? What happens to them? Do they go to worse colleges as a result?
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“you don’t care about poor people” is 1) not an argument, has 2) nothing to do with my central point, and is just 3) a kind of obnoxious thing to say to someone from a family of poor people
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