<p>@Pizzagirl, your post suggests that you misunderstand what @expatCanuck was saying and perhaps what the article was trying to say. I believe he is saying that humans are not hard-wired not to game the system to favor themselves or their kids. </p>
<p>You, Hunt and I are probably good examples of this. I went to three elite schools and taught at one. If I have a kid who can benefit from them, I would want him or her to do so. I can afford it and the one child who would want the challenges and advantages elite institutions can provide is doing what your kids did. Unhooked kids might have been stronger than your kids or mine (though of course mine is brilliant and perfect …) but the advantages you as a parent can convey to your kids might cause your kid (or mine) to get in ahead of the unhooked kid (though in this particular case, my kid in fact attended a school where he had not hook, but you get the point). And your kids, like the ones I mentioned above, may well get </p>
<p>Clearly the remedy the author proposes is intentionally naive. I assumed that he was trying to twit the hypocrisy of liberals who on the one hand decry the racism or other isms of elite schools but wouldn’t give up their own or their kids’ chances to garner advantage from the privileges that they have created/inherited over time. </p>