Why educational inequality exist

 We need to stop educational inequalities every single child deserves a good equal education jothoon Kozol the author of my favorite book the savage inequalities blames an unjust and uncaring society for inner-city children’s low levels of Another way to fix educational inequality is by improving students performance on tests, this process not only requires merely spending more tax money, but also getting parents to take more interest in their children’s educational progress.. Therefore, Kozol, believes that the process of equalization for all students might alienate affluent parents (Kozol, p 9). This shows that even though spending more tax money might help poor schoolchildren; Schools need to have more funding to make equalization a reality in society for all schools. This is although Kozol does not believe that making schools equal is the only solution by improving student performance on tests. I agree with Jonathan Kozol that it is the job of our schools, which we like to believe, is to give children a chance to develop their abilities and compete with others in our society. But has the game been “fixed “right from the start? ( As cited by Kozol, p 9) In my opinion, the” savage inequality of economic status, social status, racism, sexism, and cultural division of class differences is obviously not equal. Kozo1’s analysis proves once again that our social stratification system, based on capitalism, is a closed system. We are not an open system in which people are not socially mobile because of social inequality and class differences. I think we should be an open system in society.

Academic performance, high rates of dropping out of high school, classroom discipline problems, and low levels of college attendance or completion. Although the emphasis on societal guilt can be overdone, it has value: Learning about overcrowding in ghetto high schools makes the dropout phenomenon easier to understand. Some of the numbers and facts in the article were unbelievably astounding to me, especially the examples of a very poor public school 261 in district 10 a capacity of students in 900 students, yet the actual size of the class is 1,300 students 

Currently, schools are funded by local property taxes. In wealthier areas where there are extravagant houses, big industry, and businesses, the taxes collected are more than enough to fund their schools. Schools like P.S.24 in New York have a planetarium, where the gifted children “are designing their own galaxies.” Students in Cherry Hill have the “use of seven well-appointed ‘music suites’ ” (This contrasts greatly to schools in poorer cities where, even though citizens are taxed at higher rates, the tax base to support these schools is too low and inefficient. In some areas, like East St. Louis, most residents are on welfare, and what little industry they have attracted has been through tax exemption. This lack of funds leads to the terrible conditions of the neighborhood “spilling over into schools” in these poorer areas. Many of these schools have few toilets that work, textbooks enough for only half of the class, teachers who do not show up, holes in the ceilings, and “8th-grade students who cannot add five and two.” Most of these poorer schools are located in urban areas where the children face enough problems outside of school to pull at anyone’s heartstrings. They suffer sickness that goes untreated caused by pollution and poisons from nearby industry, poor nutrition, and lack of dental care. “Children live with pain that grown-ups would find unendurable. These children deserve a beautiful school full of books, flowers, music, and working toilets, and teachers who inspire and nurture as much or maybe more than the students in wealthy communities. Without this, they have little chance to grow up to be happy, successful people and to escape the terrible conditions under which they must live every day.

The children are aware of the atrocities of their surroundings and that others have much better schools. This is seen as a racial issue to many because most of these poor, inner city districts are mostly black and Hispanic and the issue of desegregating these schools has been attacked ferociously by the wealthy districts that are mostly white. Children in these poorer schools often come from parents who were raised in similar areas. Their education levels are low and they often feel undeserving of better in the eyes of people with the power to change their situations and smooth the differences of this dual system. They feel that their children are unwanted by other schools, and are viewed as undeserving. Many times these parents lack the power and resources to demand change. Unfortunately, influential politicians and others with the power to change such things, often listen to the citizens who are the most powerful. These are those who fund campaigns and vote the most (which tends to be middle to upper class) instead of those who truly require help, such as these people and their children. Without assistance, this pattern of social reproduction will continue. Generation after generation will be taught inefficiently and doomed to repeat their ancestors’ plight. In addition, some of these schools are terribly overcrowded with classes far beyond practical numbers. In one school in the Bronx, “four kindergartens and a sixth grade class of Spanish-speaking children have been packed into a single room”, and there is “a second grade bilingual class of 37”. The teachers’ abilities are undoubtedly unreasonably stretched to properly instruct in any roomful of this many very young children.  

Many argue that the reasons for these disparities in what the children become are not the schools, but the environment that the children come from and their parents’ attitudes. Though there is much truth to this, every child deserves the best opportunity to succeed. Schools are the area that we, as a society, have the most direct control over. “The school is a creature of the state, the home is not.” Having a quality school with dedicated teachers may be the only chance these kids have to escape their substandard environments.

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I have always known that there is global inequality in the world’s education system let alone in the United States of America. I just did not know how severe social inequalities in the education system were in the United States

Currently, schools are funded by local property taxes. In wealthier areas where there are extravagant houses, big industry, and businesses, the taxes collected are more than enough to fund their schools. Schools like P.S.24 in New York have a planetarium, where the gifted children “are designing their own galaxies.” Students in Cherry Hill have the “use of seven well-appointed ‘music suites’ ” (This contrasts greatly to schools in poorer cities where, even though citizens are taxed at higher rates, the tax base to support these schools is too low and inefficient. In some areas, like East St. Louis, most residents are on welfare, and what little industry they have attracted has been through tax exemption. This lack of funds leads to the terrible conditions of the neighborhood “spilling over into schools” in these poorer areas. Many of these schools have few toilets that work, textbooks enough for only half of the class, teachers who do not show up, holes in the ceilings, and “8th-grade students who cannot add five and two.” Most of these poorer schools are located in urban areas where the children face enough problems outside of school to pull at anyone’s heartstrings. They suffer sickness that goes untreated caused by pollution and poisons from nearby industry, poor nutrition, and lack of dental care. “Children live with pain that grown-ups would find unendurable. These children deserve a beautiful school full of books, flowers, music, and working toilets, and teachers who inspire and nurture as much or maybe more than the students in wealthy communities. Without this, they have little chance to grow up to be happy, successful people and to escape the terrible conditions under which they must live every day.

The children are aware of the atrocities of their surroundings and that others have much better schools. This is seen as a racial issue to many because most of these poor, inner city districts are mostly black and Hispanic and the issue of desegregating these schools has been attacked ferociously by the wealthy districts that are mostly white. Children in these poorer schools often come from parents who were raised in similar areas. Their education levels are low and they often feel undeserving of better in the eyes of people with the power to change their situations and smooth the differences of this dual system. They feel that their children are unwanted by other schools, and are viewed as undeserving. Many times these parents lack the power and resources to demand change. Unfortunately, influential politicians and others with the power to change such things, often listen to the citizens who are the most powerful. These are those who fund campaigns and vote the most (which tends to be middle to upper class) instead of those who truly require help, such as these people and their children. Without assistance, this pattern of social reproduction will continue. Generation after generation will be taught inefficiently and doomed to repeat their ancestors’ plight. In addition, some of these schools are terribly overcrowded with classes far beyond practical numbers. In one school in the Bronx, “four kindergartens and a sixth grade class of Spanish-speaking children have been packed into a single room”, and there is “a second grade bilingual class of 37”. The teachers’ abilities are undoubtedly unreasonably stretched to properly instruct in any roomful of this many very young children.  

Many argue that the reasons for these disparities in what the children become are not the schools, but the environment that the children come from and their parents’ attitudes. Though there is much truth to this, every child deserves the best opportunity to succeed. Schools are the area that we, as a society, have the most direct control over. “The school is a creature of the state, the home is not.” Having a quality school with dedicated teachers may be the only chance these kids have to escape their substandard environments

I have always known that there is a global inequality in the world’s education system, let alone in the United States of America. I just did not know how severe social inequalities in the education system were in the United States