Treating everyone the same sounds fair—giving each student equal resources, equal opportunities, equal treatment. But equality doesn't account for different starting points, different needs, or different barriers. A student who arrives hungry, a student with disabilities, a student facing discrimination—treating them all identically doesn't serve them equally well. Equity moves beyond equality to consider what different people need to achieve similar outcomes. This shift from equality to equity represents a fundamental reframing of fairness in education, one that not everyone accepts.