Equal Opportunity Education

The editors mention that not everyone in our society are able to get a fulfilling career because the top most education is unavailable to those without financial stability. If someone is really poor they probably live in a crummy, worn down neighborhood and go to a public high school that receives poor funding and are probably treated like a delinquent as soon as they step through the door. Many a person has come out of a poor family and made a life, but many a more have come from a wealthy family and stayed that way. The resources available in a private high school as opposed to a public one are substantially greater and even from one public high school to another, resources vary. No one has an equal education and this fact helps keep some people poor and others wealthy. This is not to say it is impossible to move but recent history has proven that it is getting increasingly harder to gain mobility.