[Little32]

^^Exquisite, I did say that education is what you make it, but I do think that it is demoralizing to see that others are seemingly valued more than you are.

The equal distribution of resource goes with a lot of what others have been saying including re-teaching these new generations the value of education and the value of delayed gratification.

I think that people in other nations value education more than we generally do. In a nation that values celebrity and money--any way that it is achieved, i.e. Paris Hilton--more than hardwork, folks are looking for the quick buck and not the years of education to achieve what they want.

I also think that 10 years may not be a long enough time for a historical devalued neighborhood and school system to reach parity with schools that have always had enough funding. Let see what happens over the next few decades. I am sure that those statistics are part and parcel of trying to revoke the "Robinhood act" and paint these schools beyond redemption. Have there been any improvements in that system?

Also, I think that to say that across the board, urban schools have more money is not accurate. I think that you would have to do a neighborhood by neighborhood analysis before you can make that statement. Where I am from the schools that really suffer the most from this disparity are not the schools that are downtown but the schools in the neighborhoods with the housing projects and depressed property values. A good deal of those are in the city--though not downtown--but not all of them are.

Finally, the school system is just one example of where that could be more equality in terms of the way that public funds and resources are employed. I think that regardless of the statistics that may suggest the opposite, this is one of the more important and impactful thing that we might do to dampen the blow from the ever widening wage gaps.