Jencks Equal Opportunity

After reading Jencks’ article I have come to the conclusion that one of his candidates could be considered the most appropriate interpretation of equal opportunity even though implementing it fully would have some counterintuitive consequences as would any of the other candidates. I believe that strong humane justice which demands that children face equal prospects for educational achievement regardless of their socioeconomic background or their native level of ability (genetics) is the most appropriate version of equal opportunity. In my opinion, it is pretty obvious why the strong version of humane justice seems the most appropriate version of equal educational opportunity. It is a moral obligation of us human beings as a species to care about

Mainly being that implementing this version completely would mean levelling down prospects of achievement requiring that we undermine the cognitively able children resulting in low levels of achievement for all. This is where the moral foundations of humane justice come into play. It is significantly important to maximize the prospects of well-being of those children whose prospects are worse than others in order to ensure equality of opportunity. Once we can improve the conditions in society in a way that benefits the worst off children that’s what we should do. We therefore must encourage the talents of cognitively skilled children as well as they might develop the wealth and technology that could improve the lives of the disadvantaged children such as the severely cognitively disabled. I also believe that flourishing family life is extremely important so suggestions such as removing children from their parents at birth so that they can all develop equally good educational experiences and opportunities would of course implement educational equality but at the cost of seriously jeopardizing family relationships which is in no way