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The Education of Sonya Sotomayor
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I wrote about the education of Barak Obama, then a candidate. Let’s now look into Sonya Sotomayor’s education. Like Obama, she does not have a privileged background. Born and raised in the Bronx by immigrant parents, her father dies when she was 9. She goes to Blessed Sacrament School in Soundview, and then to parochial Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. Just like Obama, Sotomayor is not a product of public school system.
To be fair, at least four of Supreme Court judges graduated from public schools. Public schooling works for middle and upper class children (although keep in mind, most of the Court judges graduated from high school a while ago). However, for a person from a poor or minority background, to rise to the top seems to require some private schooling.
This is not something new – the achievement gap is perhaps the most compelling reason for education reform. But it hels to put specific faces on the problem. Would Sotomayor be where she is today if her mother kept her in Bronx public schools?
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