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Backpacks Full of Privilege

It’s that time of year again. Parents are frantically checking supply lists and packing their children’s backpacks for school. But pencils and notebooks and glue sticks aren’t the only things parents send from home. Rather, parents—or at least affluent, white parents—also send their children with strategies for securing unfair advantages in school….

academia on parentingJessica CalarcoSeptember 21, 2018privilege, schools, education, social class, race, opportunity hoarding, advantages, help-seeking, accommodation-seeking, parents, teachers

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