Inequality In The Education System

Education has been a social structure for hundreds of years. Education began as a way for men to gain more knowledge, then as time went on women could be educated too. Then soon, everyone no matter what race, gender or ethnicity were able to obtain an education in the United States. Unfortunately, the system started out unequal so there is inequality still present. The inequality in the education system tends to constantly affect minorities. The education a person obtains is impacted heavily now on where the person lives; minority groups tend to live in ghettos and poorer areas. Without a proper education, it is very hard for a person to move up the social ladder if they wish to. The problem is not only with moving up the social ladder, but …show more content…
This affects the educational system dramatically because the schools in the poorer neighborhoods tend to be worse off than schools in richer areas. This is a problem in the New York City public schools and the New York Times has published two articles addressing the problem. The "More New York City Schools join Diversity Initiative" article, talks about how some schools in New York City are fighting against educational segregation. Some of the schools in New York City are making a point to admit more students of color and poorer backgrounds into the richer public schools. The problem with the New York City school system is that the richer neighborhoods have really good public schools while the poorer neighborhood generally filled with members of minority groups have bad schools. The city is laid out in such a way that the poorer people all live in the same general area and the rich all tend to live in the same area as well. It causes structural racism because it limits the opportunities the poorer member of society because they do not get a great education from the poorer New York City schools. Having this system only continues the cycle of poverty for the minorities because they are not getting the best education that they could just because of where they live. Residents of New York City have noticed the trend of inequality and now have …show more content…
A person has to find somewhere to live and most the time the areas they live in are poorer because that is all the person can afford. This idea is explained in "Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City". The article talks about how these two parents would like to send their daughter to a good school, but they live in a very poor neighborhood in New York City. The father sees no problem with sending his daughter to the poor school in the area because the daughter will learn about diversity, but the mother is very worried. The mother grew up in a very poor neighborhood and went to school in a segregated area. She fears that her daughter will not be educated in the right way, and will have to deal with the segregation that she had to deal with as a child. The problem is that they do not have the extra money to send their daughter to a private school, leaving them with no choice but to send their daughter to the local public school. The sociological perspective of conflict theory believes that the rich will stay rich while the poor will stay poor. The article "Choosing a School for my Daughter in a Segregated City" shows the conflict theory 's ideas. It does because it talks about the conflict of wanting to send their daughter to a good school but not having the means to actually send her to a good school. Inevitably the daughter is stuck to go to the local public school because it is what the parents