Oh yooooooooo hooooooooo...AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!
The G.I. Bill is what got many more people, of the middle class, into the IVY LEAGUE and other colleges than anything before!
Until the '60s, the vast majority of jobs didn't require a person to have a college degree to get one and/or rise in a company/career!
Most people, even those from the 0.0001% didn't go to college, until BABY BOOMERS came along and their parents were encouraged to send their kiddos to college.
The wealth gap, between the wealthy and even the upper middle class, has been GIGANTIC...for most of the history of this nation; it is NOT a "recent" development.
Nice way to start.
The wealth gap, between the wealthy and even the upper middle class, has been GIGANTIC...for most of the history of this nation; it is NOT a "recent" development.
I was referring to the "academic achievement gap." And I was talking about a relatively recent development.
Schools like Harvard and Yale were largely reserved for graduates of a few prestigious prep schools until the 1950s when they made a conscious decision to open the schools up to public high school graduates who outscored the preppies on the SAT, so those schools were more open to upward mobility.
Then in the 1980s and 1990s, public schools declined, private schools acquired a greater academic advantage over them, and tuition rose dramatically, so such schools are once again an elite preserve, but a preserve for a new elite. That's all been documented.
Nothing against the G.I. Bill but it wasn't what I was talking about. The G.I. Bill opened up college to many who otherwise wouldn't have attended them, but the full tuition benefit didn't last very long. Colleges were impressed by the veteran's academic performance, but if the colleges hadn't made a conscious decision to seek non-elite students afterwards, they would have gone back to how they were in previous decades.
But why am I bothering to explain this to somebody who obviously doesn't care and isn't serious about the topic?