middle class upper middle class highly attached institution school exp — Kirsten Olson, Wounded School: Recapturing Joy Learning Standing Old School Culture
The middle class and upper middle class are highly attached to the institution of school explicitly as a sorting mechanism, as a way of justifying privileges of which middle-class members are already central beneficiaries. These critics suggest that the entire notion of schools as meritocracies actually reifies and reinforces class privilege–making those whom school rewards (those who already have a lot of benefits) feel they deserve the privileges they have.
