All of the public schools I went to were very well-off. The funding that they received was not fair because they received more funding than the poorer schools. According to Teaching to Change the World, schools all across America spend less money on low-income children and children of color than they spend on economically advantaged and white students (Oakes, 2013, p. 18). This was sadly the case with the public schools that I went to. The education was great, but the schools were not fair to everyone and not very diverse. Most of the students were “white” and upper middle class. I am half Mexican and half white, so I do feel like I was out of place. I was “too white” to fit in with the Hispanics and “not white enough” to fit in with the
All of the public schools I went to were very well-off. The funding that they received was not fair because they received more funding than the poorer schools. According to Teaching to Change the World, schools all across America spend less money on low-income children and children of color than they spend on economically advantaged and white students (Oakes, 2013, p. 18). This was sadly the case with the public schools that I went to. The education was great, but the schools were not fair to everyone and not very diverse. Most of the students were “white” and upper middle class. I am half Mexican and half white, so I do feel like I was out of place. I was “too white” to fit in with the Hispanics and “not white enough” to fit in with the