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>>lxm+(OP)
I was really hoping this is a decent article about what some teacher or school did about the problem. It starts like that but then it goes kablookie...

So, a certain Joshua Moreno is fed up with the system and did something about that, 2 paragraphs. GREAT. Then the rest of the entire article is about institutionalized racism and how the current system fails us. At no point do we get a good example about what mr Moreno did, only what he moved away from. This is horrible confusing writing.

I'm sorry but this is absolute click bait garbage. I AGREE with the fact that there is institutionalized racism and I aplaud work to reduce that. But this article is misleading, and confusing, and poorly written. There's no concrete idea in it that we could debate here on HN. If there is, someone would have to rewrite and state it clearly.

>>laserb+aI
Education is one of the places where institutionalized racism clearly exists in the US and Western Europe, but not in the way you think. According to Wilfred Reilly for the US: “Black (and Latino) students often receive admissions offers with test scores twenty or thirty percentage points lower than those of white or Asian applicants. At a typical top-50 educational institution, the “affirmative action edge” for minority applicants appears to be in the order of 300 test points.”

“the middle-class white male applicant to any good college or Fortune 500 job does not actually enjoy massive white privilege. Instead, he is at a 250–310 SAT-point competitive disadvantage relative to an identically qualified Black or Hispanic opponent.“

— Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About by Wilfred Reilly