These college-ready schools allow children living in low-income communities to enter a school that allows them to prepare for college. Reassure kids that college is the way to go. In the article "What's Causing the Gap?" , it is stated: “The certainty that low-income children can absolutely achieve as high levels as their more affluent peers”. This goes along with what college-ready schools are trying to accomplish and work even harder to bring their students up to standard. The only problem is that most socioeconomic families are unaware of this type of school, but parents may also believe that they have to pay for these schools. Then again parents put their children in the school they want their children to go to and choose the school that is right near their home transforming it into a convent. Parents with low socioeconomic income do not realize that the school they choose is influencing their child's education. This causes the long-term effects of choosing a public school rather than a college-ready school, allowing low-socioeconomic kids to believe that college is not a place for them and allowing them to think that it is a school