I was just talking to two teachers who had been teaching for more than 20 years in urban US public elementary and middle schools. We discussed this very topic.

I was just talking to two teachers who had been teaching for more than 20 years in urban US public elementary and middle schools. We discussed this very topic. From their vantage, they were highly aware of the role of luck. In the US, school funding is partly a function of test scores. This is a crime, because it penalizes the unlucky with more unluck. These teachers shared that with more resources, more of their students could succeed since they would have a little more luck in a life devoid of it.