<p>Bay, My point and, admittedly it could have gotten lost in the comment’s pithiness, was that the government assistance was necessary for this kid to have done as well as he did.</p>
<p>Without it, we’d have a situation like third-world countries, where families live in deep poverty from which they suffer and have no way out.</p>
<p>It is hard for poor kids to do as well as middle-class kids in the U.S., to be sure. But it’s far harder when the poor live in countries without government assistance.</p>