School, man. It's nuts.

There's no getting around the fact that this is late, and I can't say I have much of an excuse other than "Halloween," and if you know what I was doing for Halloween, you know that's not a particularly good excuse, so let's just get right into it.
It seems apparent that throughout the piece, Anyon is heavily implying that, depending on the average income of the area, schools have a tendency to train students in preparation for whatever jobs are most prevalent in that area.  They are conditioned to put the same level of thought into their schoolwork that their parents put into their jobs, so that they are more likely to go into those fields and not do their own thing.
The sentence quoted seems to basically be saying what I just said.  That the schools are training the kids to be carbon copies of their parents in relation to society.  And I think that yes, it is fairly accurate.  Of course there are exceptions (as always) but it is generally how it goes.

Overall, I felt like this article was fairly interesting, but didn't really capture my attention in any meaningful way.  I've left the public school system, and am trying my best to forget about it for the time being.  One of back-up careers is actually to be an English teacher, so obviously, I'm going to have to re-acquaint myself sometime, but for now, I just want to forget about it.  It was a time in my life that I look at with very little fondness in terms of the schools themselves, and I'm extraordinarily glad to be here now.  I understand how looking back on this time in our lives helps us understand how our identity was shaped, but for me, it was more the social aspect and things outside of school that shaped me, so even if I'm talking about school in those terms, I'm going to hit a wall in terms of things to talk about pretty fast.