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I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with splitting children based on the capacity at an early stage, then teaching them at a higher level, and allow them the only ones to get a university degree. (backdoor entries are still possible through some other ways) But yes, the shift isn't made based on pure merit and intellect anymore. I'm Dutch and in the Netherlands we have a similar system. My parents are/were simple middle-class (dad started working at age 16), and me and my siblings all went to the gymnaseum equivalent. But one of the worst students in my class was the son of the local doctor. He was always slow, asking questions, and then suddenly was "diagnosed with dyslexia" so he could take an additional 15 mins for each test. I recently saw on LinkedIn it took him 10 years to get a master's degree. Education used to be the great class equalizer, but nowadays higher eduction is often used by the higher classes to make sure their children have a big head start over the rest. The really smart kids from the lower classes will still "escape", but the above and below average on either side will not move up/down like they should.
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