Black and Latino students did worse in schools with ‘diversity officers’: study

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[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Your comment reminds me of how important parents are to their children, and how less important the schools are. Successful parents usually have a skillset that their children learn, just as parents who scrape by teach their children that skill set.

[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sure.

Social class is also a network. You build professional contacts from the people at your school who are your group, and later with the parents of other children who can afford a similar amount as you to send their kids to the same school.

And small but significant things about the class of your friends makes movement out of that class difficult. At a point in my life I was looking for work in a city I'd arrived in with not a lot, but I crashed with an old university mate and his family. Because he was professional class, that influenced the type of jobs I could get, simply because I showed up to interviews in one if his suits.

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People skills are a large part of it, for sure.