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It turns out that students’ test scores rise with their parents’ incomes. 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/23/upshot/sat-inequality.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8Ew.E07E.cbMSbZ68qrSu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #GiftArticle
@tob@hachyderm.io@Sheril Thank you for sharing this. Education as a public and societal good has always been the rhetoric, but we have to acknowledge that the system has always had, at its core, the goal of preserving the status of elites.
Once again, what's good for the elite is bad for everyone else.
The problem here isn't so much that different income levels have different outcomes. It's that the disparity in income is so great that it distorts *everything*.