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Originally Posted by roachboy
equalizing funding across localities is a first step to equalizing educational programs. of course it is not an end in itself.
but i find it curious, ustwo, that you would at once complain about the effects of aa--which are the effects of trying to address class stratification and its effects in education (among other things) AND that you would dismiss/trivialize any proposal to address the underlying problem...which is, from your earlier post about medicine, educational.
if you oppose both then:
a. you have a secret idea that might resolve the problems--do tell.
or
b. there are no problems of inequality in education/opportunities in either class or racial terms except those created by attempts to solve the problems or
c. you think such disparities normal and oppose anything that tampers with what you see as a natural order.
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Roachboy, this is a false, er, trichotomy. There are other possibilities than the ones you mention here. I'll let Ustwo respond to your jab as he pleases, but I thought I'd note that your "a,b,c approach" is fallacious.
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