Yes, thats like, the whole main problem with American society.

It is statistically true that working hard, staying out of jail, and getting an education is absolutely not a guarantee that you will achieve what the Boomers call 'middle class lifestyle', or better.

It might help you at least tread water, in terms of generational advancement, maybe?

But if you don't have a stable home, family situation, food situation... shouldn't be surprising that you tend not to do well in school.

A huge part of that problem is indeed tying together local property taxes and school systems.

People have been saying this and proving it with numbers since at least the 90s.

But, we never changed it in a way that would fix anything, instead, the Republicans have spent my entire lifespan on this planet deliberately destroying public education, because they want to give taxpayer money to privately run religious schools (Christian, of course), and then make everyone pay for basic, K-12 education, via some kind of voucher/marketplace of schools system.

They know dumb people are easier to lie to, and most of our own Founders knew that a functional democracy is impossible without a foundation of an educated and well informed populace.

So, of course, blow all that up, revert to Theocracy, thats the plan, its basically mostly Reagan's fault for setting all this in motion.