> historically, the elite schools were for the children of the elite Based on what I read several years ago, social mobility in the U.S. used to be significant

> historically, the elite schools were for the children of the elite Based on what I read several years ago, social mobility in the U.S. used to be significantly higher, such as in the 1980s, and I know the U.S. used to define itself on social mobility - the Land of Opportunity and of Liberty, where a person is free to do and accomplish what they can through merit and hard work. I'll add that the U.S. long has been run by children of the working and middle class, such as Clinton, Obama, and LBJ, as well as elites (Trump, Bush, Bush, Kennedy, etc.). (I'm not cherry-picking; I just don't remember the economic backgrounds of Reagan, Carter, Nixon, etc.). Of course it still was very imperfect, but my point is that we shouldn't think that the way things are is the way they've always been.