There are too many variables at work here to deduce something as droll, and frankly, offensive as "poor people are stupid". Poor outcomes from disadvantaged fa

There are too many variables at work here to deduce something as droll, and frankly, offensive as "poor people are stupid". Poor outcomes from disadvantaged families are due to more than educational opportunity. Children make fun of each other for superficial things, including how expensive their clothes are. The social element, and the feeling of being left out of activities because you cannot afford them, I would say contributes more to poor outcomes than just the lack of money. It's everything else that gets triggered or worsened from a lack of money that creates the outcome. And typically, nobody cares unless that person is female or they grow up to create trouble for others. Then they start having conversations about how we can "improve outcomes". As usual, any effort to care comes after problems become too large to handle. People who discuss this need to either live it or go get exposed to its realities before they can start making definitive statements on it. There are plenty of intelligent people who were simply handed the short end of the stick economically, and it's a failing of our societies that these people fall through cracks to begin with.