If the United States could somehow guarantee
poor people a fair
shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so
damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.