You will be able to stop parents doing what’s best for their kids, not should you. To do so would be to bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator.

You will be able to stop parents doing what’s best for their kids, not should you. To do so would be to bring everyone down to the lowest common denominator. We’re not a small homogeneous country like Finland. Local fundraising, usually for arts and music, do very little for “getting ahead”. Private schools operate by mostly weeding out the disruptive/ low performing kids and selecting self motivated students with supportive parents. They don’t usually have amazing teachers that “work magic”. I’ve lived in some very poor areas in my life as both a child and adult. By far the #1 influencing factor is the education of the parents. There are countries that try to ban inequality and the only thing that happens is things go underground and get more unequal. That said, even if things aren’t all the same, there is no excuse for the bottom to be so low. A variety of terrible policies ranging from finances to letting disruptive kids have their way ruin what could be a much better experience.