Does Class Matter? Options

[bananapants]

We had a class discussion on class and i was wondering if any of you think class matters today? Because i mean if you live in a rich neighborhood then obviously your property taxes are larger and therefore there is more money to be spent on schools. If you go to a public school then you go to the school in your district. If your district is rich then you go to a pretty nice school. Therefore leading to a good education. If you a have a good education then you can probably get into a good college based on you level of education because today you need a college degree more than before. There are of course many special cases in which people do defy the odds. But really does class matter? Does it matter if you are rich VS poor? How important is class? Does it define your future? Does it matter in which class you were born? Does it matter? Is it more possible today than 30 years before to go from rag to riches? The school example is only one of many reasons why i believe class matters.

[swimgirlarc]

I think it could go both ways. If a kid goes to a public school, he doesnt have the access to the best education and teachers like private school kids do, but if the kid is raised by good parents, has a good work ethic, and is motivated, he/she can indeed become anything they want to be.
If one goes to a private school, they have a greater chance to become something in life just because of the awesome education. If the kid comes from a rich family with high status, there are connections. There fore the kid can become what he wants to be in life without as much work as say a poor kid without those connections. So the poor kid has to work twice as hard to get to the level of the rich kid.

It is probably easier now to rise from rags to riches as it was 30 years ago. Colleges such as Harvard and Yale are giving full tuition to kids who make it in with a family income of less then 45,000 a year. That is just one example. The internet also gives underprivledged kids more acess to homework help and just more knowledge in general to help them get somewhere in life.