> that's exactly what these school policies in CA and elsewhere are attempting to do

Hmm… either I wasn’t clear, or we are talking about different things.

Maybe I should have added “lessen the imbalance of access to opportunities” to be extra clear.

California is creating equality of academic outcomes by reducing the access to academic opportunities — certain races can’t stand out if they simply aren’t given the chance to do so.

The examples I gave of Head Start and well-run gifted and talented programs focus on increasing academic opportunities.

One of these is inherently regressive, and the other is inherently progressive.

> Striving for less inequality in general will also help solve the inequality in education problem.

I think we are advocating for the same goal.

To be clear about the how, I strongly advocate for increasing access to academic opportunities rather than limiting access to academic opportunities in order to generate an equality of outcomes at an overall lower level.

> To be clear about the how, I strongly advocate for increasing access to academic opportunities rather than limiting access to academic opportunities in order to generate an equality of outcomes at an overall lower level.

I agree. We may quibble about the details of how best go about achieving that, but yes, this is the goal.