America- "the land of the free, and the home of the brave". Many citizens would like to consider our country as a "classless" society, and the idea of "rags to riches" plausible. However, there is a big social and economic divide between America's upper class, middle class, and lower class. Imagine this; two ninth graders with the same academic potential are both living in Massachusetts. However, student A is living in an apartment in Lawrence with his mother who is a waitress. His father is imprisoned. Student B is living in a mansion in Weston, with his Ivy-league-alumni parents. Student A attends Lawrence High School, and the other boards at the elite Groton School, where the acceptance rate is 12%, the tuition is $55,700 a year, and the most common college attended by alumni is Harvard. 5 years later, student A is working at Denny's and struggling to make ends meet, and student B is in their second year at Princeton. What happened? While one child struggled to collect enough money for school supplies, the other was spending thousands of dollars on special tutoring twice a week and SAT prep courses. Millions of kids just like student A are unable to continue with their education past high school due to financial problems, and Every year, over 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States alone. That's a student every 26 seconds – or 7,000 a day. Your socioeconomic class, your family's income, and your school district's funding all affect your opportunities, your future, and your "American experience."