Mechele Dickerson
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That's not the reality.
for lower and middle income families.
And so what I do both in the book and also when I'm giving different talks is we have to focus on K-12 because it's too late once children are about to turn age 18.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
But again, one of the, they're very, COVID was awful.
It was dreadful.
And I've always have to preface this with, there was nothing good about COVID, but some good things did come out of COVID.
And one of the things we saw during COVID is what happens when you have an extended educational slide.
So we have children now who still have not caught up and who are still behind because of the COVID slide.
So you're absolutely right.
Everyone has their own agenda.
Actually,
Before I joined the UT faculty, I was at the law school at William and Mary.
And so I know about those gated communities there.
And it was just striking.
It's like, oh, so you all don't want to lose cheap high school labor.
That's the reason you want to.
Oh, OK.