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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:42PM (#19935379)
In a world where the efforts of parents don't help their kids, parents won't make efforts. This will degrade the educational attainment of all kids. Most people consider this to be a bad thing.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by harryh on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:47PM (#19935411)
"diminishing the effect outsized parental involvement can have on college admissions" != "efforts of parents don't help their kids"
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships by darawk on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:10PM (#19935575)
That really depends on how much diminishing you do. Either way, at the margin, you decrease the return to parental investment. At the margin, parents will invest less.
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