What is our obligation to other people's children?

Most of our time is focused on us and our families, very few occurrences do we part take in other people’s problems.  We make it known to ourselves that it is best to just take care of our own problems and not to meddle with other people’s problems. Thus, we are structured to make sure we do not involve ourselves in situations that don’t include us. But is this is correct way of acting? In a community there are interconnected neighbors that have families of their own with their own needs. Yet when we face the needy or the less fortunate that ourselves we don’t ignore so easily, most of the time we think about if we should intervene or try to help them but the majority of passer byers just tend to walk past with no courage to stand up for someone else or help them. Education is a fundamental part of each of us; we all have learned and have been taught by someone to then teach those lessons to another person. America is widely known where freedom is, where equality is given to everyone in the nation. However, that is not the case due to the difference of financial income and living stability each family has. So there will be a disadvantage to the families who have no choice but to send their children to an institution that is known to have poor quality education, versus better off families who can afford to send their children to a school of higher quality. Education in America is slowly declining for decades to the point that revising or trying to fix the problem is now extremely difficult to accomplish. Instead, we as a nation should take it upon ourselves to provide a universal education system that will bring high quality education to every student regardless of income, social status, race, gender, etc. It is such a disservice we are doing to the children of our country by allowing them to be deprived of the proper education they should receive just because of monetary issues.