lower-income people fare when they try to get a better education for their children. Examples of wealth inequality in education is the case of Tanya McDowell, who went to prison for enrolling her son in the wrong school district.

In 2011, McDowell, a homeless Bridgeport, CT mom, was arrested and charged with first-degree larceny for enrolling her then 5-year-old son Andrew in a school in neighboring Norwalk. McDowell at the time said she and her son were able to sleep at an apartment in Bridgeport at night, but during the day had to leave, and lived in her van or at shelters.

Kelley Williams-Bolar served nine days in jail in 2011 after she was found guilty of using her father’s address instead of her own in an attempt to have her daughters enroll in a better school district than the Akron Ohio. She was also put on probation for three years and required to complete 80 hours of community service.

All public education in the U.S. is not created equal, which oftentimes forces parents from low-income backgrounds to use the addresses of friends and family members to get their child into a better school district. It should come as no surprise that those most impacted by this disparity in funding are people of color.

Justice is for Tanya McDowell and Kelley McDowell whom never should've been charged, convicted or sentenced to prison and neither should any other parent in low income areas (districts)