when moving down the income level, and how the levels of achievement dropped according to income. Where Doug and the advocates of the poverty theory uses it to advance their own interests, as well as explaining the failures. In a typical middle-income school, where private tutoring and access to educational products are available, it is the start of the stats showing the famous 40-60 split of where 40 % students are just below grade 3 reading and numeracy levels. At this point, the private tutoring spike and the private tutors are enjoying an increase in business tending to the weaker skills of students, whose parents are willing to bite the bullet, and spend a small fortune to addressed the weak skills in the 3 Rs. What type of parent go to tutors, are of the professional type, and less likely from the well-paid blue collar workers. But many will addressed their children's weak skills, by buying educational products, purchase subscription sites on the web, and other items, that all help to improve the academic weaknesses. The tutoring and education products are worth billions of dollars, and most of it is directed at the middle-income group. Meanwhile at the school level, as well as the board level, they take full credit for any achievement, while bragging at the lower numbers of LD students and other hard to teach children. But what has never been studied, is how students at any income level are treated according to the social status of their