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ceejayoztoday at 2:43 PM1 replyview on HN

In your scenarios, equity proponents would tend to advocate for things like extra testing time, access to tutoring, etc.

(And systemic efforts to prevent dropping bricks on childrens' heads in the first place.)


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JCTheDenthogtoday at 2:51 PM

>In your scenarios, equity proponents would tend to advocate for things like extra testing time, access to tutoring, etc.

So you claim, but in reality proponents of equity instituted a system that gave Black students a roughly 450 point advantage over Asian students on the SAT:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/white-students-un...

Note that the NYT, in their pure, non-partisan spirit of fairness and equity, somehow found a way to describe this as an unfair advantage for White students.

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