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How to support equity when your community resists it

My daughter's private school is starting a partnership with an under-resourced public school and some parents are worried it will lower academic standards, but I cannot shake the feeling that we are the reason that school lacks resources in the first place.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The recognition of one's complicity in inequality conflicts with the desire to maintain advantage.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Reparations — the philosophical case?”

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