America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste

Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by lotsofpulp on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:17PM (#19098676)

Higher socioeconomic classes inherently have benefits, like better informed parents, and friends who have better informed parents. This will show through any test, and it's just a fact of life since everyone isn't equal.

I don't see changing a test to be a solution. If the problem is not having well equipped parents and network, then the solution has to attack that issue. Which of course is very difficult and spans over decades as it would take generations to change.

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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by vokep on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:29PM (#19098855)

Thats true, but there's no good way to just 'fix' it all.

However, don't make the test expensive. Basically, make it economically equal to as great a degree as possible. Some will still be disadvantaged of course, but I think at some point that's reality, the fact is everyone is not equal. If everyone is treated equal though, then at least those with value can rise themselves to the top regardless of other circumstance.

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Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste by lotsofpulp on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:53PM (#19099125)

I agree with that, I think a British style system would be far more equitable than the College Board nonsense America has.

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