I really don't think of it as "political" in any way that most people would like to see an educational system that does GOOD things for everyone that it serves.

It doesn't seem like the current system does truly good things for the majority of participants, quite frankly.

IF there is a genetic basis for SES, then that gap is fine. But there is pretty compelling evidence that suggests that is at least mostly untrue.

What that means, then, is that some students are getting WAY FEWER of their needs met-- educationally and otherwise-- than the cohort fortunate enough to have parents who are educated and economically empowered to do something better for their children.

Presumably we here are about 90% in that latter group, in one way or another.

I'm not sure that improving the educational system will do it, because it does nothing about the very real fact that when you look at the lowest quartile of the SES, those people as a group have children who are less concerned about educational needs because they are a lower priority than other needs which are ALSO going unmet.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.