[Jtype]

You need to do a lot more reading if you think equality of opportunity and equality of output are the same. Saying that everyone should have equal rights and treatment under the law is a far cry from saying that everyone deserves the same outcomes in life.

I assume that you're conflating equal opportunity( via rights and treatment under the law) with equal starting points, but they are far from the same things. Equal starting points are going to be impossible, literally a pipe dream without creating some form of dystopian nightmare that prevents people from having children, and instead farms genetically equal embryos who are then raised by the state. Which will also necessitate monoculture and risk humanity due to the lack in individual variation.

[kennywinker]

Public schooling, a non-rights based government program that provides everyone with education regardless of the economic circumstances they were born into, does not create equal starting points - but it is an improvement in the equality of everyone's starting point. Hardly a dystopian nightmare. Seems to me that there is a lot more we could do while still avoiding your dystopian nightmare scenario

[robertlagrant]

No, you're mixing up concepts. Public schooling is to do with equality of opportunity.

[kennywinker]

What set of rules did you use to draw the line between an opportunity and an outcome there? Why does it stop at highschool, and not continue on to university, jobs, or board seats?

Because you might just as well frame public school as the government stepping in to mandate that there are seats in elementary and high school for everyone.

[AnimalMuppet]

Everyone has access to public school (hopefully of decent quality). Not everyone learns the same amount. Not everyone gets A's. Even more, not everyone is valedictorian.