And it makes me feel angry / cross.

It upsets me a lot that that world is very nepotistic. That some are born to money and some aren't through no fault of their own. Some kids are picked off to go to private schools with well renumerated carefully selected well educated teachers and others are shipped en masse to public schools who don't have appropriate resources who have overstuffed classrooms...

it makes me angry that all the little 'intelligence tests' and so on along the way... are really part of the whole protecting the elite thing... justifying that these kids deserve better educations because they have more ability but really the ability they have is only because of the early privaledge they had. the situation compounds over the years.. and you end up with colleges full of rich kids... some of them are hardworking, yeah. and some of them are intelligent, yeah. but they aren't at all the 'best' kids... they were the lucky ones. from a nepotistic point of view. picked off early... brave new world, anyone? I am an alpha test tube baby, i am the best kind of baby... i am a beta baby. so happy i'm a beta baby those alpha babies have to work far too hard!

it makes me cross...

and so... the uni where i am at the moment... doesn't have open entry (for anyone who wants to be there)... exactly. but... nearly. not open entry to all the programs (very hard to get into certian programs like med and engineering and nursing and clinical psychology etc etc). but the idea is to let in most poeple.. and then see how they do. that is the idea. level the playing field.

only it is far from level. firstly you have the accommodation problem. you need to be in a residential hall or for your parents to be commuting through to the city every day anyway or something to make it convenient. they schedule lectures for 8am for the course i'm doing this year... if you don't live 5-15 minutes away, you are screwed. they let in a bunch of poorer people who live in the outskirts of the city. they can't afford to pay for parking or public transport... can take several hours to get across the city... they let them in... they set them up to fail... and they... internalise their failure. they had the opportunity. they couldn't do well enouhg. they faile.d but really... the very 'best' kids wouldn't have succeeded if you gave them to some south city 13 person family 3 bedroom house 2 hour commute type situation, either...

then there is the background... it is funny... at the start of the year the kids are all like 'i went to this big important rich high school what school did you go to?' then over time they learn that most people roll their eyes at that. or... if they can't do something most people are all like 'you spent 5 years at the most expensive school in the county and you STILL don't know how to do that???' and that looks heaps worse for them... than if they are all, like, pretending they have never seen any problem anything like that before... but they can do it! easy! omg yuo must be, like, SO SMART! my hero!!'

so people don't see... because people learn to misrepresent. i've heard a few people say 'oh, we did all this in last year chemistry at x school... only it was so much more confusingly explained at uni'. and... it is faintly conspiracy theory... but i think there is a lot of truth... to how there is something intentional about that. the richer schools have better teachers than the prepratory university classes do... the prepratory university classes are supposed to be at the same level... it always was the case that your very last year at high school... could be skipped. you could go straight to university from your second last year... so the university offers a bunch fo maths / science classes that are supposed to get through the high school preparation stuff... for the kids who went to **** schools. who had **** teachers. that is basically what that is about.

only... they give them **** teachers again. not ALL of them... but at least 1 of them in classes that are shared taught. so you miss out on a chunk of content. so... it doesn't prepare you as well. which is.... the whole nepotistic point. so the kids are all 'i did the best i could and i wasn't good enough' but they weren't given comperable opportunity.

i don't know what is wrong with people.... how stupid they can be... that they think nepotism is in anything other than their own very short range interests. it isn't the best thing for this country to have the rich people's kids run the show. some of them are smart and hardworking... but there are plenty of other kids out there who are just as smart and just as hardworking... or who would hve been with the same opportunity... there are plenty of kids out there who are MORE THAN. or who would have been with the same opportunity. it would be in EVERYONES interests for the SMARTEST and MOST HARDWORKING to run teh show. but we can't pick out those poeple if we don't have a leveller playing field to identify the talent. People... pay for their kids to be identified as talent only their kids aren't talented. And society as a whole... Suffers. And you get people doing things that (the smartest amongst them) know full well they aren't most well qualified / positioned / competent to do...

It is ********. For reals.