[tstrimple]

No. It's largely the environment that the parents create. Which is why the equity vs equality arguments are bullshit. If I can afford to hire the best tutors for my children and sign them up for summer classes as well, is it really "equal" when they dominate the tests and edge out other kids from opportunities? No. It's because of my financial situation and the opportunities we're able to afford and willing to sign them up for which the majority of Americans cannot. But because everyone takes the same test we can pretend it's "equal".

> "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

> Stephen Jay Gould

[confidantlake]

No one in my friend group got any SAT tutoring yet the worst person was still 95 percentile. The tutoring argument is overblown. Testing is one of the great equalizers. Us nobody suburban kids had just as much of a chance as the rich prep school kids. Despite the fancy tutors we still outscored them.