&gt; The biggest privilege these kids have is that their parents care about their education. Money does not provide much of an advantage.<p>Since when did school quality and neighborhood income stop correlating? When did private schools become free? When did after school tutoring and test prep programs become free to attend and provide free transport to and on demand?<p>All of these things take money, and all of them a positively correlated with achievement, and quite out of reach of poor people.