We journalists love it when members of our audience take the time to either comment on our stories online, or slip a letter to the editor in the mail.

Why? Because it reminds us that people read the fruits of our labor, and that we have a responsibility to those people.

Sometimes it adds something we have overlooked. Always (well, almost always) it adds to the debate, which can only be a good thing.

On Thursday, a reader at www.suffolknewsherald.com, identifying as “bo_sox,” noted that non-Title I public elementary schools in Suffolk were unable to take part in a summer enrichment program that was offered by Suffolk Public Schools to only Title I elementary schools.

“I think it is great that an enrichment program is being offered at the Title I schools, but feel sad for the students at the non-Title I schools,” he or she wrote.

“They do not get the opportunity to participate. They don’t have Nooks available to them. Some of these schools just miss qualifying for Title I status; therefore, funding is not available for reading specialists, academic coaches, e-readers, enrichment programs, etc.”

He or she has a point. It would be great if every child was given every opportunity to succeed, but it would be far greater if the world was without the type of inequality that means some children need to be given a little extra.

Reality, of course, is relative, but our public policymakers bear the unenviable — as far as I’m concerned — task of deciding whom to please and whom not to please.

“Students at every elementary school could benefit from a program like this,” bo_sox concludes.

Yes, they could. But while taxpayers can’t provide every student with these things, targeting certain schools and students, which is feasible, will benefit society in the long run.