And I agree with you (again) on your second point. I went to a special magnet program within a public high school and the gulf between the education that I and my classmates were lucky enough to receive and what the kids in the larger school were getting was enormous.

When I Google my classmates from the magnet, they show up. Students from the regular school, not so much. I think that the Internet can create the illusion of a middle-class and upper-income world sometimes, hence my pleasure that the NYT is covering the income gap.

That said, I agree with you. When I taught law at a high school in the “ghetto,” I was aghast at the disparity between that school and the one I attended, which was just an average public school in an average suburb.