Being rich is not a crime (although some social justice warriors try to make it so). Helping your own children get a good education is not a crime also.
I agree that there should be some form of help for the poor, but gaming the grading system is not the way to go.
Whatever you do the children of rich and well-educated will always be in top 5-10% of their class. We shouldn't promote equality by trying to bring them down, instead we should focus on bringing other students up, making the gap between top 5% and bottom 5% percent narrower.
Coming from Eastern Europe, I'm having hard time to grasp the "rich&educated" meme.
Over there, rich and educated is barely a poor correlation. In my experience, a lot of rich people kids were stupid and didn't have much academical success. Yet there were folks coming from poor but educated families who did really well. It's anecdata, but in my class it was ~ equal amount of rich-but-stipid and poor-but-smart kids.
The real privilege is parents' attitude. The attitude that education (not grades, but the real education) is important. This doesn't seem to correlate with wealth much though. A lot of rich folks built their wealth by working hard from zero. Which is frequently not education-heavy field and their mentality is not much different from barely educated handyman. While a lot of well educated people (teachers/educators, all kinds of office workers, engineers and whatnot) are not even middle class.
I'm from the US, and have no idea why rich/poor entered this discussion. My parents were very poor, but reasonably educated. I never picked up on any hint of a correlation between wealth and good grades.
HOWEVER, I saw an enormous correlation between wealth and going to university.
I also belong to the poor-but-educated-parents so I know what you're saying. I would assume the explanation for people with poor parents doing worse is because the parents have less time to be involved. But if you want to know more there are numerous studies. :)
"Whatever you do the children of rich and well-educated will always be in top 5-10% of their class."
Any evidence for that - from what I've observed at the private schools in the UK that my son has attended is that the rich have plenty of kids who have problems or underperform academically - it just doesn't matter very much for them as their parents are rich.
[NB And by "rich" I mean seriously well off - tens or hundreds of millions]
I agree that there should be some form of help for the poor, but gaming the grading system is not the way to go.
Whatever you do the children of rich and well-educated will always be in top 5-10% of their class. We shouldn't promote equality by trying to bring them down, instead we should focus on bringing other students up, making the gap between top 5% and bottom 5% percent narrower.