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Re:Judge: California’s women on boards law is unconstitutional by kennywinker on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:23PM (#31415243)
Public schooling, a non-rights based government program that provides everyone with education regardless of the economic circumstances they were born into, does not create equal starting points - but it is an improvement in the equality of everyone's starting point. Hardly a dystopian nightmare. Seems to me that there is a lot more we could do while still avoiding your dystopian nightmare scenario
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Re:Judge: California’s women on boards law is unconstitutional by robertlagrant on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:25AM (#31421052)
No, you're mixing up concepts. Public schooling is to do with equality of opportunity.
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Re:Judge: California’s women on boards law is unconstitutional by kennywinker on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:53AM (#31424278)
What set of rules did you use to draw the line between an opportunity and an outcome there? Why does it stop at highschool, and not continue on to university, jobs, or board seats?

Because you might just as well frame public school as the government stepping in to mandate that there are seats in elementary and high school for everyone.

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Re:Judge: California’s women on boards law is unconstitutional by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:18PM (#31427132)
Everyone has access to public school (hopefully of decent quality). Not everyone learns the same amount. Not everyone gets A's. Even more, not everyone is valedictorian.
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