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> On the other hand though it might be essentially impossible to close the gap between low income and high income students.

If this is a goal a society set it is possible. Remove the parents from being involved in their children education. When born, remove the children from their parents and send them to some national education system until they're adults.

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Not sure if that is intended genuinely, but as a parent who also experienced growing up in poverty, I find that solution to be worse than the problem.

Which is why people keep citing the dystopian fiction story of Harrison Bergeron [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

They tried that in Australia. Didn't work well.

I may not have been clear. It does not apply only to poor people. All children, from rich and poor parents would have to be raised in the same institutions.

So now we emotionally cripple an entire generation?

But the gap is closed.

Maybe we should learn to live with inequality? Seems as if you can't build an egalitarian society without tyranny.

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