Re:The K-shaped recovery
by cjohnson318 on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:36PM
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> The us school system was already split and I think after a year an a half of covid it will be completely segregated by economic class.
I agree, this "segregation by class" is also proxy for "segregation by color". I grew up going to public schools that were about 50% white. The AP classes were all at least 75% white, and 100% upper-middle class, or better. Part of the problem was that lower-class kids didn't have the resources at home to perform well in school. I think another part was that upper-class kids looked cleaner, and had parents that advocated for them to get into AP classes, whether they were more advanced or not. Full-disclosure, I wasn't in lower-class/non-AP group.
I agree, this "segregation by class" is also proxy for "segregation by color". I grew up going to public schools that were about 50% white. The AP classes were all at least 75% white, and 100% upper-middle class, or better. Part of the problem was that lower-class kids didn't have the resources at home to perform well in school. I think another part was that upper-class kids looked cleaner, and had parents that advocated for them to get into AP classes, whether they were more advanced or not. Full-disclosure, I wasn't in lower-class/non-AP group.