Inequality in Education
This week in class we talked about inequality in institutions, with a touch on educational inequality. the first thing I thought of was this clip.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/05/28/tsr-intv-9-year-old-takes-on-chicago-mayor.cnn.html
The kid basically says it all. The mayor wants to close numerous schools because they are not producing the scores that other schools are. I see a whole other solution for this problem. Like Asean says in the clip, we need to invest in our schools. However when it comes to schools filled with racial and ethnic minorities people seem to give up and say forget it when performance is sub-par. The test scores are low and graduation numbers are low because there are no resources. There are no supplies, no good teachers, and no motivation to learn. If a child is given a new book, new school supplies, a classroom, and a excited, qualified teacher, that student will learn and be eager to do so. However, these schools like Asean's are filled with minorities, and that limits the funding the school receives. America is going to have to start funding equally, if not more so, the schools in which the student body is predominantly minorities, because in fifty years, whites may be the minority. There needs to be racial and ethnic equality in the education system. Eventually it would become too big of a problem and few schools would be receiving funding, and our nations educational system would be in the bottom ranks on the worldly scale.
I think the clip you posted was very interesting. I also agree with you on the race of the school decides the fate of the school. If the schools filled with minorities received exactly the same as the other schools they would most likely end up doing on average the same as the students in the other schools. But because they are filled with low class minority students the funding and recourses get cut from those schools. I believe this is very wrong and something has to be done about soon.
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