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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
Why do these children deserve a chance while other children do not?
Essentially what you're saying is let the neglected children get more neglected while the privileged children get more privileged.
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I don't think that's what she's saying at all. The neglected children
do not get more neglected. The children whose parents put in the effort get rewarded. It's called positive reinforcement. Giving a gold star to a hard-working kid isn't automatically a slap in the face of the class slacker (except we're talking about the parents' effort in this case).
Holding back the "privileged" children in a misguided attempt at evening things out does no one any good. And it's not about anyone "deserving" a chance. It's about the motivated parents
creating those chances for their kids, sometimes out of thin air.