<p>I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that GOPTexas is from Texas. You keep mentioning that posters in this thread are ignorant and uninformed. Well, I have to say, as someone from Los Angeles, I’m just curious what exactly it is you know about “some F schools in South Central?” As it happens, a new administrator was recently transferred to my high school who used to work at Roosevelt High, which - if you don’t know since you’re from Texas - is in Boyle Heights and draws a lot of students from the adjacent South Central. Just so happens that he managed to send some kids off to Princeton, Stanford, and Yale in his time there: high-achieving students who literally attended “some F school in South Central.” The context of a student’s high school education can underscore that what they have accomplished at “some F school in South Central” is a feat and that their struggle is more valuable, in and of itself, than the grades of some bland valedictorian from a “quality school.” What YOU say is ignorant and lends itself to a comforting elitism: if my life begins wealthy and privileged it must, naturally, continue wealthy and privileged. </p>
<p>Of course, I’m assuming you’re actually from Texas (you may just be a cast-away Republican in San Francisco who longs for the hard-lined conservatism of the Texas GOP). I’m also implicitly assuming you’re wealthy and privileged, or at least in comparison to the students who attend “some F school in South Central,” but, I don’t know, this doesn’t seem so improbable.</p>