> Saying this shows how out of touch you are. Speaking of New York, the recent under-10 chess championship was won by a refugee in a homeless shelter. Yes, hundreds of dollars is out of range for his family.
No, it shows how out of touch you are. You can’t craft general rules for society around the unique circumstances of people who are literally at the very bottom. They need special help outside the regular system.
But for ordinary poor kids, a few hundred dollars is not out of reach. What is beyond their grasp, however, is the cultural and social capital that would be required for upward mobility in the inevitability subjective regime you’d have if you got rid of the SATs. Poor asian kids, who grow up in the bottom 1/5th of the income distribution, are more than twice as likely to end up in the top 1/5th as adults than poor white kids. That’s because the gate keeping metrics in this country are objective, and not based on social connections or cultural knowledge.
> Middle class in Asia can be poor in New York City
Yes, so what? If your family is making $35,000 household income (the poverty threshold in NYC), what does it matter whether your family was middle class back in old country? And these kids are dealing with language and cultural barriers on top of the limited financial resources.
But for ordinary poor kids, a few hundred dollars is not out of reach. What is beyond their grasp, however, is the cultural and social capital that would be required for upward mobility in the inevitability subjective regime you’d have if you got rid of the SATs.
Seems like a sound point.
Poor asian kids [...] are more than twice as likely to end up in the top 1/5th [...] That’s because the gate keeping metrics in this country are objective, and not based on social connections or cultural knowledge.
No, it shows how out of touch you are. You can’t craft general rules for society around the unique circumstances of people who are literally at the very bottom. They need special help outside the regular system.
But for ordinary poor kids, a few hundred dollars is not out of reach. What is beyond their grasp, however, is the cultural and social capital that would be required for upward mobility in the inevitability subjective regime you’d have if you got rid of the SATs. Poor asian kids, who grow up in the bottom 1/5th of the income distribution, are more than twice as likely to end up in the top 1/5th as adults than poor white kids. That’s because the gate keeping metrics in this country are objective, and not based on social connections or cultural knowledge.
> Middle class in Asia can be poor in New York City
Yes, so what? If your family is making $35,000 household income (the poverty threshold in NYC), what does it matter whether your family was middle class back in old country? And these kids are dealing with language and cultural barriers on top of the limited financial resources.