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.