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Originally Posted by Spexxvet
So the wealthy who can afford the best education get better educated and maintain an advantage over the lower classes, ad infinitum. Yeah, that'll ensure that power/wealth stay in the family. Sounds like an educational feudal system.
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It's not what you know, it's who you know. Do you really think there are that many strata of education quality? A "good" school has almost nothing to do with the subjects taught and almost everything to do with the other students attending.
Case in point: Yale is in the midst of putting its classes online, available to anyone. Is this because they have some sort of special genius to impart, the answers to the universe, that only those Yale students have been getting all these years? Of course not, their textbooks and lectures are around the same level of any decent state university, if presented a little more liberally. They know that. Will it cause attendance at Yale to plummet? No, because the students of Yale will still be getting what they always got for their money: a passable education, and
great connections with like-minded people.
It already is an educational feudal system. Rich districts have better schools. What does it matter if they get to tell the government to butt the hell out about what warning labels they must put on their textbooks?