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A comment on SAT score distributions in Michigan. Parent comment

Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by jjj123 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:49AM (#33108918)
Free after school programs, free lunches, Medicare for All, public housing. These are all things that would level the playing field for poor kids and allow them to make the same decisions that wealthy kids get to make.

It’s not about choosing for them, it’s about lifting the boot on these kids necks enough so they can choose for themselves.

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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by MichaelCollins on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:39PM (#33111371)
> Free after school programs, free lunches, Medicare for All, public housing.

Poor kids in America already get all of these, even free healthcare. The families of middle class kids have to pay for all of that, but not the families of poor kids.

Quadruple all these programs and you'll still have a situation where some kids want to do well but simply don't have the brains for it, and some kids who could do well but have shitty parents.

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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by sokoloff on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:27PM (#33112051)
Early childhood (0-3) nutrition could probably productively use more expenditures. Setting that aside, I think your last point is a very large part of the problem (which also includes the nutrition point).
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