A lot of my friends in the city I went to college in would have been on the "equity" side of this debate as well, until they had kids themselves. It dawned on them that their kids in public schools may not be able to get algebra in eighth grade anymore. And good luck with long division. So after they realized their kids will get a worse math education than they had, they changed their tune.
Most progressives end up changing their tune on all their major ideas when they collide with reality. For example, San Francisco last night booted the progressive soft-on-crime DA because of the increasing crime rate. Seattle recently saw increases in crime and had to walk back their tune on getting rid of law enforcement. Progressive ideas simply do not work in reality. Be it on law enforcement, dissolution of borders, dissolution of merit-based systems, equity as pertains to gifted programs...I've not seen a single progressive idea produce any good results when implemented.
I'm hoping the SF DA recall election is a sign that we're going to see the pendulum swing in the other direction as more people realize that the progressive platform is toxic trash.
