I personally know people who had poor parents and succeeded by education and hard work, don't dismiss what you don't know.
> The hate directed at this article is endemic of fear. Absolute fear that someone will get more than you.
No, it's your comment that's hateful. You think little of the individual, only the family and identity groups matter. That's why you are against tests and grades.
I think movements who value abstract ideas (critical justice, religion, communism, nationalism) over real flesh and blood humans, who over-generalise and ignore the specifics of each case, are leading us towards the reign of terror.
They all want uniformity, the individual dissolved into the group identity, all united in the same ideology. Like soldiers.
I am an example of that. But speaking of parents, they cared about my education and pushed me to learn.
What really predicts success is how <pushy> your parents are. But also how hard you work, how gifted you are and what kind of people you meet in school. It's not 100% the parents. There are plenty of rich parents with children with low educational results. They don't care.