Dropping the SATs Hurts Poor Kids

Suppose you’re a poor teenager in a dysfunctional environment. You have to work a part-time job to help make ends meet. Your parents are absent or completely checked out.

So you have to help take care of your younger siblings. You’re smart, but you’re not in a position to devote much time to homework or to getting top grades in every class. But you set a few hours aside in an afternoon, and receive an outstanding score on the SAT. Suddenly, options become available to you.

Our ruling class is doing all they can to prevent this possibility.
Remember:

If you come from poverty and chaos, you are up against three enemies:

1. Dysfunction and deprivation
2. Yourself, as a result of what that environment does to you
3. The luxury belief class, who wants to keep you mired in it