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    1. WEIXUL4 09 Oct 2025
      according to teachers, children from more affluent families are more engaged than their low-income peers. Also, children from low-income families are more likely to engage in antisocial behavior and to have mental health problems.

      The stark inequality is not confined to cognitive skills but is deeply rooted in behavioral and mental health dimensions. It is unjust to attribute low-income students' “low classroom engagement” and “antisocial behavior” solely to individual or family factors. These traits are more akin to survival strategies and psychological responses under the pressure of poverty. Isn't this moral blackmail?

    2. WEIXUL4 09 Oct 2025
      It shows that children from families in the top 20 percent of the income distribution already outscore children from the bottom 20 percent by 106 points in early literacy. This difference is nearly twice the size of the gap between the average reading skills of white and both black and Hispanic children at that age, and nearly equal to the amount that the typical child learns during kindergarten. Moreover, the reading gap was even larger when the same children were tested in fifth grade. Gaps in mathematics achievement are also substantial.

      This data has somewhat overturned my understanding. I agree that it powerfully demonstrates that among the factors influencing academic achievement, class disparities may be more significant and fundamental than racial disparities, and the issue of educational inequality must first be examined from the perspective of economic structure.

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    3. WEIXUL4 09 Oct 2025
      Alexander appears well on his way to an Ivy League degree and medical school. Anthony has a job, but the recent violent deaths of two friends have him just hoping that he will still be alive in five years.

      Here, the abstract concept of “inequality” is immediately concretized into two starkly divergent life trajectories, making me keenly aware that the educational divide extends far beyond mere test scores—it directly connects to the fundamental difference between mere survival and a life worth living.

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