Genderism, racism, linguicism, and general discrimination are all contributors to the inequalities that we see in the American educational system, but there is another, which is often left out, forgotten, or overridden by one of the other contributors that are deemed more important.  This major contributing factor to the educational gap that exists in the system is concerned and centered on class, which presents the inequalities in the form of a funding gap in schools.  So we then must ask ourselves three important questions: