Is Schooling Equitable?

 When we ask if schooling is equitable, we are really asking if schools are fair and provide equal opportunity. In order to understand equity it is important to know the difference between equity and equality. Equality is giving everyone the same thing in order to keep it fair, while Equity is giving everyone what they need to have the same opportunities. In my opinion, I feel like school is not equitable because almost all schools have some way of not having equal opportunity for all students. One of the biggest ones that I see is a lot of students miss out on things if they don't have money, and a lot of times that can be because of the social class someone is in or the background they come from. For instance if a student comes from a background of money or they play sports they have a better opportunity of getting accepted into colleges mostly with full-ride scholarships, unlike students who don't they often have to work extra extra hard to have full-ride scholarships to the colleges they want to go to. If schools could find a way to give everyone, regardless of what they are doing or the background they come from, an equal opportunity, I feel like students would have a better outcome of the way they view their futures.