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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

The problem with this thinking is that especially in education, the education level of the parents matters a lot. If you have parents with no higher education, the child is not likely to get one either. This means that groups that were previously disadvantaged will have fewer kids that attend, and their kids will have fewer kids that attend, and this goes on and on.

In order to break the cycle, you need to push the opposite direction for a while. Otherwise you're disadvantaging children for something that happened to their great-grandparents.

https://degree.lamar.edu/online-programs/undergraduate/bachelor-science/university-studies/parents-education-level-and-childrens-success/