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red sox 777 posted...

The words you are using sort of exemplify the problem with the system- "prepared" and "qualified." Which kids are going to be prepared and qualified? The ones who have parents who have been preparing them from an early age - i.e. generally wealthier families.

It's a really terrible to thing to tell a child that they aren't qualified, when the reason for that is that their parents are poor.

There is a minimum level of qualification necessary to be able to handle the curriculum at these schools. Is it wrong to not let kids who havent finished algebra into a calculus class?

And not all differences in academic ability boils down to a difference in resources. There are high achieving poor kids and low achieving rich kids (including those whose parents have pushed them). You can account for differences in opportunity without flipping the table over and going to a lottery, leaving the most of the most talented kids of all backgrounds to go to their base schools because they werent lucky enough.

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