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Fix the public education system so that living in a poorer area doesn't mean your kids have zero chance at real success. We are moving more and more towards a caste-system where your parents success is the most important factor in your own success, as a child. It hurts us all when we don't have the most qualified people possible performing the important professions.

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You could fix both issues by moving out of California. The children could get a good public education, and the parents could afford a house.

This is the "just move" solution which, as mentioned by someone else, is not as easy or possible as it sounds.

I don't think moving across the bay is going to fix their terrible public education problem.

How do you propose we fix the education system?

The largest predictor of educational success, like you said, is money. You can try to equalize, but the rich will always find ways to spend more money on their children's education.

I don't think there is a solution as long as America's rising inequality continues.

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