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I’m living in reality. I was talking about equality of opportunity (from childhood), not equality of result. Equality of opportunity is an American value; equality of result is a Marxist value. Unemployment rates reflect result, not opportunity. </p>
<p>Same job title and different salaries does not mean discrimination. Women often make less than men with the same job title and company because they work fewer hours/week or hours/year. Statistics that attempt to show discrimination there are highly misleading because they do not factor that in–all they go by is job title (or something equivalent) and gender.</p>
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because they BELIEVE that privates are higher quality. or they may want the religious affiliation of a particular private school. or any of several reasons. Public schools have certain opportunities that privates simply can not offer. I need to get back to class soon, but we can go on further if you want.</p>
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If you care enough to make something happen, you can make it happen. It’s unfortunate that you had such a sour evaluation, but that doesn’t matter. In my time at a public high school, I had had so many good teachers, and I can guarantee you that my school was a “far worse” one than the one you went to. We were in the news for gang violence, over the course of my time there there were two shootings, one on campus, one slightly off. There were usually police on campus.</p>
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because some folks work hard and take advantage of their opportunities, some squander their opportunities. Your statement would only make sense if all people made equal utilization of the opportunities available to them.</p>