Chapter 18 shows the vast inequality that exists in funding public education.  This chapter tells the classic story of the school in the richer community that has everything needed and all the extras that creates successful students and the school down the road that is in a poorer community that doesn't even have books, let alone all the extras of the richer school.  Definitely, students at Groundview immediately start out with a disadvantage that students at Mountainview don't have.  Since school funding is based on the income of the community,  the only thing, besides changing laws, is to encourage the advantaged schools to share their resources with the disadvantaged schools.  Allow the school without the pool to use the pool at the school that has one.  This doesn't solve the problem completely, but at least it gives the students from the poorer schools exposure to these things that they might not know even existed.  This exposure lets students possibly find something they are really interested in that they might not have known about if they weren't exposed to it.

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