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Tarumon on 13 January 2013
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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
NintendoPie said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

That doesn't change the fact that those parents had to make a greater economic sacrifice for their kid(s) than wealthier parents.

I'm not disregarding that, because it is true. But it's not like poor kids couldn't get into these schools at all.


Nor did I ever say that that was the case. I just concluded that a kid with wealthy parents have greater chances of entering private schools of high quality, which I find unfair. A child with rich parents evidently has more options.

Democrats want to hand the man the fish.  Republicans insist teaching the man how to fish.  But NOBODY gives up their own fishing holes and the problem today is rich and poor alike line their kids up just the same, for the same jobs that could change the life of some, but merely fulfill the egos of the well fed.  A child with rich parents not only have more options but whatever options they chose, they have more ammo to buy the win button.  There is school, after school program, then private tudor at night.  You still got them beat?  Here's a game changer, extra curricular activities.  How the hell is a kid with good grades, high IQ but gotta help with chores, feed the livestock or stash some hay gonna have the time to LEAD? 

In my kids old public school, there were literally rental residents, families of two to four sharing one address so their kids could attend the school.  These are working parents who couldn't afford the homes but just wanted their kids to have a better chance.  The sad reality is, they merely pad the stats for the schools.  High GPA? Yes. High SAT? Yes.  Acceptance to great schools? Nope.  And I had to move cuz my boys were gonna grow up not with the awesome memories of playing Ultima II (whatever today's equivalent is) but how many damn tudors they worked with.

Luck is a pertinent part of success.  I remember playing an MMO where they randomly assigned starting stats.  Players started deleting characters to get that uber AGI or INT.  In real life, kids born into wealthier families do have more choices.  That is not unfair because the other way around would be unfair too if as a parent I'm not allowed to share my wealth with my kids.

But here in America at least, the land of the free.  As long as you see the uneven playing fields for what they are, there are paths you can take outside of what the institutions would give you.  Sports, Music, Art for the gifted, Entrepreneurship for people like me who's too weak to fight, too slow to run, to blind to pick the right color and too clumsy to draw even two lines.  But you can still find a way to min max yourself and make a great living.  In the great MMO of life, there is always a way.