Great article! Another factor that gets way to often ignored is ability — especially learning disabilities. I’m a working class woman of color (and a college student) with learning disabilities and grades are literally the bane of my existence. I have never really cared all that much about grades myself but that’s because it’s a survival technique. I have to work 2–3 times as long as my peers just to achieve mediocre grades and I often feel pressured to do better because of these very real and very harmful societal expectations that you’ve mentioned. I actually did go to a prep school on scholarship for 13 years but that did not do much to help me. It seems my marginalized identities won out over that so I’m left feeling like the system really is rigged to work against us no matter what we do. You really hit the nail right on the head you talk about struggling through an education system that wasn’t built with us in mind.