Well-stated, Benjamin. smile

When the lack of opportunity is the result of the fact stated by Val (that too few minority students can demonstrate their READINESS for such coursework)-- then simply providing them with those courses is not going to solve much of anything.

Slapping an AP calculus course into an inner city high school where the majority of students struggle to pass algebra I? WHY?? What on earth can that possibly do but convince already-struggling students that they deserve to be excluded because they lack ability?

Better to fix the structural problems that have resulted in that outcome to begin with. Access to coursework isn't the elephant in the room.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.