有道理，差距越拉越大

Yes, I agree with the author.
It is cruel, cold and unbelievable.
However, it is the truth.

Previously, the learning resource is open and transparent to all students.
Now, different.
Everything is priced.
Without payment, poor kids are isolated from excellent learning resources.

Although poor kids can still make it by working hard, however, the learning efficiency is definitely deteriorated.

Current learning competition is based on pace, poor kids will find it harder and harder to keep the pace with kids from wealthy family.

I am talking about general tendency, not refer to extremely smart kids from poor family.
Actually, you couldn't expect your son or daughter to be the top 3% smart one.
That's unrealistic.

Solution?
Work even harder, that's the only asset we have.
Thank you.

sorry, I have a very different view on this article. For speaking about general cases, I am not going to talk about kids from extremely poor or rich families.

Myth#1-"而造成这种“尖子”向富裕家庭倾斜的原因，其实就是背后金钱（教育投入）的较量，有钱的父母可以请最好的老师辅导孩子，并花钱培养孩子的各种特长以利加分。而那些勉强甚至举债供孩子读书的父母，他们的孩子就只能被那些有名师辅导的孩子慢慢地超越了。".  We should not over-estimate the contribution from those tutors, of course, some of them are really helpful, but not many can indeed! Sometimes, I even wonder if their teaching focus on taking exam skills. On the other hand, there are many many good learning materials on the internet or in the library available for their study if they want to get, which are free and accessible. Not everything is priced.

Myth# 2"他坦言并无甚良策，只不过是对儿子威逼利诱而已，比如哪一门的功课不理想，就花大钱聘请好的家教老师为他辅导，并许诺在什么分数线上可以获得什么样级别的奖励等，以此来刺激和鼓励儿子不断的努力。" Life is a fair game. When the kids are "pushed" to have a "better" exam results,  they may loss something which are critical to their career growth, which are "learning attitude" and "self initiative".


Myth#3-对于企业来说，衡量一个人能否胜任工作，也许不仅看毕业学校的名气，考了多少证书，最关键的要看“诚信”、“责任感”、“勤奋程度”，而这些，寒门子弟更有可能具备。但是，当进入各行当和社会阶层的大方向已经被初次设定，寒门要再跨越，恐怕更难了。Believe me, career is like a Marathon. Excellent school results really give you a key to some career opportunities but only at your career early stage. Sooner or later, you will find that “诚信”、“责任感”、“勤奋程度” are much much valued from employers' perspectives (of course, school results should not be too bad). Importantly, money might help the kids have "better" result, but can do nothing to improve their “诚信”、“责任感”、“勤奋程度”.

家庭环境影响个人的发展，各国皆然。关键是什么样的体制最能够增加社会阶层的流动性。有意思的是，大家一致认为应试教育是国内教育的弊端，最应当改革。而从社会流动性的角度来讲，最不应该改变的就是应试教育。因为应试是经济下层的学生向上层社会流动的主要途径。诚然，才能多种多样，把考试当成才能测试标准既不全面也不公正。但是，从统计的角度看，如果考试和智商测试高度相关，那么考试是预测人生成功的最便捷、客观的方式（虽然仍然远远称不上一个“好”方式，但比其他选择强得多），因为智商是这些预测中的重要元素，而且相对稳定，而且不带经济背景的偏见：无论怎么刻苦，智商不会有太大改变；因此，和智商测试相似的考试也不会因为富有的家庭的高投入而对贫困家庭的学生造成太大威胁。要是高等教育录取加重非智力元素的权重，贫苦学生只会更加倒霉。这就是为什么全民声讨应试教育是比较有意思的：每个社会中看经济阶层，中层和下层的人数总是比上层来得多，社会流动性因此对大多数人来说是好事情，但是好像中下层人民都被上层洗脑一样，大家都想要把这社会流动的途径堵上。出身在社会下层，在哪个国家都是困难的。但是忽悠人的并不是给寒门的学生一个希望。忽悠人的是以富人阶层的价值观给穷人阶层上课，完全无视社会学的一些基本结论，夺取下层人民的希望，并误导他们走上歧途。