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More on disparity.

It’s not only, or even mostly, about access, or about the new catchphrase, inclusion.

It’s about the unspoken purpose of ‘higher education’ in the first place, especially regarding elite schools: a very particular socialization. As well, the unspoken agreement that there are rungs of social strata that will be brutally enforced to the detriment of most of us for the aggrandizement and profit of a painfully small tranche.

It’s by design, enforced by law and custom, just subthreshold enough to feel ephermal, but still real and still brutally effective.

And when these marginalized students fold under the weight of hostility, entrenched barriers, and isolation, it’s always framed as their own fault, rather than the fault of the institution.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/privileged-poor-navigating-elite-university-life/585100/

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