Education

doesn't mean that all students are prepared to take advantage of those opportunities. The idea that everyone should be equally likely to succeed in school regardless of where they are coming from isn't just ideal, it's ludicrous.

Schools can't control the environment that early brain development occurs in. Schools can't make every child equally ready for academic learning at the age they begin school. People are not standardized when they are born or when they start school, and schools can't, despite what the greedy and ignorant might think, produced standardized, sanitized learning results.

Schools can't even redesign the system to better serve those coming in without the advantages that some enjoy. That would take the power, and the funding, to do so. The power and funding that politicians, not schools, have and control.