Even today, where people are realizing that we are being controlled by the companies and governments to act, say and buy in a certain fashion. I think there will be a tipping point where high tuition prices, bad education, bad job market, and high inflation will be the end. Education should not be in the hands of the college board but in the hands of students and parents. People are waking up.

I think this is the main appeal towards private schools, where you exclude the unsuccessful families from the ones who are. I also think that same concept is why HOA's exist, where a certain standard must be kept or else you are at risk of losing what you are, a homeowner in a nice neighborhood. I agree with this alot, and I don't think it will ever change, except for parents who purposely put their children in worse schools to get them better ranks in high school for college acceptance. I wish my parents trusted me that much.

This reminds me of the well known olympic runner where if you want to improve you need to run with people faster than you. I see that same idea here, where students are surrounded with an environment where they want to be at or achieve. This is a great lesson that is easily applicably in my life. I agree with this quote alot.

I feel like it is not fair to disregard facts of the type of work among hispanics, black and white careers or explain this paragraph more, where from the reading, I currently see a picture of misinformed students who do not have an education ('Inner city residents') which needs to be better explained. I disagree with them not explaining it more in these parts. It sounds like a train of thoughts from the author since this just supports their argument without adding context. I think I would like for there to be more information about these ideas, which maybe there is in the later chapters. update: it dose explain it but mainly towards African Americans.

I heard something similar about the lottery, where people think that almost anyone can win, but only a single person does. With so many like minded individuals its the perfect opportunity for a business opportunity. But having this idea as well as the opposing view is what makes america america, speech. I disagree though, you cannot diregard, parent's economic status, zip code, and social status of the person to determine their success. Schools can never equalize this

Achieving, stands out to me in this first part, especially considering there are more monopolistic companies these days preventing dreams from happening. Also, this appeal towards immigrants and american businessman goes hand in hand with american freedom. It shows us that america is built on understanding that you can do anything.