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Those are all great ideas, but the disadvantaged children in the schools this mechanism is trying to help probably don't go to schools that offer those benefits.

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Well yes...the person you're replying to is saying that those schools should get enough funding (and whatever else) so that they can offer those benefits.

And where's that funding going to come from? Currently, we're funding schools in proximity to household wealth.

Perhaps increasing poor working families' wealth is the solution that fits in with our current setup.

Or perhaps we should just even out the funding. Crudely redistributing wealth is a historically very poor way to solve inequality (assuming it is a problem), since it doesn't address the root cause. Investing in education, in particular trades, is an arguably better way. They are practical, have the most bang-for-buck value, and are not time-consuming or demanding.

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