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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (10580)2/1/2006 8:22:25 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 543999
 
But educational outcomes are, themselves, related, to a very strong degree to parents' stratification position.

I think I get the essence of the disagreement--definitional. We have a meritocracy, IMO.

I've done a lot of hiring. I hired the best person for the job. I never asked anyone about his parents' stratification position. Someone who started out with a lower one may have had to travel further to beat out the one who started out with a lower stratification position. But you deal with the job applicants as they sit before you and pick the better one, not the one who has the higher stratified parents. Or who paid a bribe or is related or was a member of the same sorority or is unlikely to ever show me up. IOW, merit.

That's how it works in a meritocracy IMO. It may not be in yours.
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