Dumb Down All Our Kids...

[CivilDiscourse]

The passive racism while accusing others of being racist really "grinds my gears". If liberals want to be paternally racist, that's fine, I have no problem, that's their business; but to have the gall to call equality of opportunity racist.....

Equal opportunity is great. Provided there actually is equal opportunity. This is tricky to meaningfully measure with some things, but others not so much. An objective standard can seem like equal opportunity, unless the person setting the standard also sets the prep for the standard, and does so unevenly. If I set a test score minimum to qualify, let your neighbor sleep soundly, but wake you up 10 times in the middle of the night, and give you food poisoning the day before the test, you definitely didn't have an equal opportunity even though the standard was objective.

However, In that situation, the problem isn't the standard, it's the prep. You don't fix the problems by changing or removing the standard, you fix the problems by addressing why the opportunity wasn't really equal to begin with.

There's also only so much you can actually do. You can't address every extraneous issue that impacts prep that isn't under your control. For example, you can work to fix funding differences in the classroom, fix teacher quality and experience, etc. but you can't fix the home life of the students, even if it has a large impact on their prep.