Can schooling inhibit education?

This video contains bold, but truthful, remarks against schooling. Education is not synonymous with schooling!

"Education- a force meant to erode class barriers appears to be fortifying them."

I believe that education is the great equalizer, yet I agree with the quote above. Today's education system appears to be fortifying class barriers, not eroding them. I have heard it everywhere, our system needs to be reformed. The biggest issue that I have with the system is that it does not give every child the same opportunity to succeed. Even though a students family background has much to do with success and can sometimes predict his/her future, I firmly believe that a school district can do much more to alleviate the issue. A schools funds are distributed based on the local property taxes, meaning the rich are going to have rich schools and that the poor are going to have poor schools. With this being said, it is obvious that the rich are going to have many more resources than the poor could ever wish for. These resources/programs include mentoring, tutors, after school activities, and much more. The rich kids have a better opportunity to be better prepared for post-high school graduation. If the school district could distribute unequal funds to schools, meaning that the poor schools can receive more money to help promote and grow resources (to make up for the difference in the amounts of property taxes), these students can be better prepared to face the future. There is not just one solution to reducing the gap between classes, I also believe that school districts should help schools implement the correlates that the Effective Schools Movement created.
Info on the Effective Schools Movement correlates can be found here:
http://ces.ou.edu/7_correlates_effectiveness.html

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/02/12524780-how-i-see-america-from-a-former-gitmo-prisoner?lite

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/26/12403615-a-special-series-what-the-world-thinks-of-us?lite

Chapter 8: Watching Big Brother discusses what textbooks teach about the federal government. The textbooks that are in use today describe our "policies as part of a morality play in which the United States typically acts on behalf of human rights, democracy, and the 'American Way'. When Americans have done wrong, according to this view, it has been because others misunderstood us, or perhaps because we misunderstood the situation. But always our motives are good". It simply describes the U.S. as the international good guy, our government does no wrong but holds the peace keeping burden.
Lies My Teacher Told Me goes on to mention the contradiction that the U.S. has become, as the links above also discuss.