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My 17 yo son tells me why he's applying to a certain school and not others today.
How he used to sit in the back of the room at age 6 or 7, when I taught at Stanford.
I brought him because I had hoped he'd fall in love with it, a place I'd never have had a chance to attend.
How he used to sit in the back of the room at age 6 or 7, when I taught at Stanford.
I brought him because I had hoped he'd fall in love with it, a place I'd never have had a chance to attend.
One day, as we were driving on Palm Avenue facing the campus against the California mountains, I asked, what did he notice about Stanford.
I was fishing. Wanting him to say how amazing it would be for him to go there.
I was fishing. Wanting him to say how amazing it would be for him to go there.
It was maybe his 4th or 5th time there.
And he said, "you know mom, you tell them what to do and the next week, they ask you to repeat what you've already said."
And he remembers it.
How they *acted* like learning was important, but never felt the urge to do the work.
And he said, "you know mom, you tell them what to do and the next week, they ask you to repeat what you've already said."
And he remembers it.
How they *acted* like learning was important, but never felt the urge to do the work.
Today, he says that he doesn't want to go to school with people who are so overserved that they think it's fine to ask the teacher to repeat and repeat what they need to learn.
Knowing they can put the onus for *not learning* on prof.
Knowing they can put the onus for *not learning* on prof.
There are the overserved.
And then there are the underseen.
He can spot the difference.
And then there are the underseen.
He can spot the difference.
It's not that any school population is better, it's that they are given far more chances to get it right.
Which is how inequality perpetuates.
As told by the now 17 yo who is schooling me.
Which is how inequality perpetuates.
As told by the now 17 yo who is schooling me.
