Haven't You Heard...

We are better off today than we were yesterday!  Segregation has ended, classism has ended, and there is equal opportunity for everyone! Just bring your brain, your skills, your tenacity, and hard work.  Why if you have not succeeded, you don't have a well paying job, you aren't doing well in school, or your SAT scores aren't in the top percentile then who else do you have to blame but yourself?
Actually, blame your parents.
Well blame, their bank accounts.

It IS about what you know!

But what you know has more to do with the jingle of mommy and daddy's piggy bank, because if they can't buy you the best zip code with the best schools and the best teachers, in order to create the best learning environment then there are many more hurdles for you to cross.

Don't blink....because even if you do keep those eyes on the prize, it will most likely slip away.

On a more serious note, the problem seems to be that rich parents just seem to have the key to a locked door that the poor don't even know exist, while the middle class seems to have dropped the key and are kicking it further out of sight.

Research has shown, that those fun summer months seem to knock the poor children even further behind.  The rich parents enlist their children in soccer, piano, dance, science camp, and tutoring, during those long summer days.  Low and Middle class children might be seen at a soccer camp for a few weeks, or a 2 week math program, but the rich children are immersed in a slew of long-term extracurriculars.

So if you aren't worth a million bucks, just sign your kids up for extra reading prep July through August. Oh but that won't solve the problem, even if you could afford it, because the issues lies with Society.

And where do we get our societal values? Why Policy of course!
And where do the policies come from? And who hires the people to make the policies?

Well, we all know Money Talks.... 
So, Stay Rich, Or Get Rich ;-)

Because it's a "Rug Rat Race" out there

Sources:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/february/reardon-achievement-gap-021312.html