We are embarking on a new path, and we are doing so in a time of growing evidence of deficits in maintaining the democratising capacity of the education system. It is not that something entirely new has been discovered. That the income levels of the family you are born into matter. That the postcode also has multiple effects, direct and indirect. Whether the school is private, subsidised or public also has an impact (notably because of the contacts that develop there). That the level of education of the parents ends up having an effect. Whether or not children attend nursery school between the ages of 0 and 3 also ends up being noticed. In any case, none of this is absolutely new. What is new is that social mobility in general has stagnated or declined very noticeably. And here, in this scenario, education itself has lost its levelling power.
Since the end of the last century, structural conditions have been weighing more and more heavily. Owning or not your own real estate. Starting from solid economic conditions based on processes of inheritance and transmission of wealth and well-being. Entering the labor market with some conditions or others. In the famous race of life, some start running very lightly, wearing high-end and padded sports shoes that adapt well to the terrain on which they compete, and others begin their journey with a backpack full of stones that generate a first feeling. very difficult handicap to overcome. This effort, sweating, getting up early, soon ends up revealing its limits.
