{"pk":57874,"title":"Reparations for Inculcation: Deconstructing the Supreme Court's Tacit Endorsement of White Hegemony in School and Reparations as a Path Forward","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This comment argues that the law constructs the education system as a hegemonic device for the inculcation of ideologies that reproduce generational inequality and white supremacy. The Supreme Court created a values paradox wherein education is revered as the most important medium to prepare students for intelligent participation in the democratic process; yet in practice, it actively subverts all students—especially ethnic and racial minorities—from ever actually or intelligently participating in the democratic process. The consequence of this inculcation produces conditions that suppress dissent, exact curriculum violence on racial and ethnic minorities, and reproduce generational insubordination. Adequate remediation of the impacts of this inculcation requires a reparations framework, to achieve the promise of education as an incubator for an intelligent, multi–racial democracy and equitable socioeconomic outcomes. Reparations repair the harms of the education system for everyone, but targeting these reparations is essential to ensuring that groups most impacted by the inequities of the education system can reach parity with others and live more fulfilling, healthy lives as a result.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Student Comments","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gd4g232","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Maria","middle_name":"","last_name":"Trubetskaya","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-07-24T23:07:50Z","date_accepted":"2025-07-24T23:07:50Z","date_published":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclalaw_nblj/article/57874/galley/44052/download/"}]}