Letter: Children deserve equal opportunities
(Ben Margot | AP file photo) Students walk on the Stanford University campus in Santa Clara, Calif., in March 2019. Before student loans, people who couldn’t afford to go to college usually didn’t. Even though tuition was cheaper, it was still cost-prohibitive for many, who turned to solutions such as working through school, getting help from their parents or finding scholarships.
If only we lived in a world where children receive equal opportunity, a world where the success of a child is not mitigated by their race or finances.
Children deserve equal opportunity. This simple statement is widely agreed upon, but the mode of reaching this equity leads us to disagreeable issues. Familial support, financial status, racial disparities, gender inequality are all highly political, yet deeply social issues that cause heated debate within society.
Schools need to lose the cronyism, nepotism and internalized racism. Whether or not someone goes to go college shouldn’t depend on affordability.
Aliza Sharp, Salt Lake City
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