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Agree to Disagree: Meritocracy

Open to Debate

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Does Maritocracy Not Suit Equal Access?

Ameritocracy allocates advantage, including elete school places, based on accomplishment. Accomplishment turns a lot on what's happened in your prior life. When we allocate school places based on accomplishment, we'll pick people who have accomplished the most and those will be disproportionately rich kids. If you looked at kids neither of their parents had graduated at high school, there were fewer than a hundred whose s a t verbal scores hit the ivy league medium.

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