Essay On Segregation Between The Rich And The Poor

Many people today would argue that cities are the causes of segregations of the wealthy and poor or the African Americans and the Europeans. The problem within that statement is not based entirely on which race is poorer or less privileged than the other but problems within cities and government to cause segregations between the rich and the poor. Cities are havens for the poor to reside as they having cheaper housing in some areas more so than the country side and suburban areas. But the problems of education within poor cities, the poor staying poor has more to do with the government policies inflicted on the city. I believe the problems that occur in education, poor areas within cities is a connection between poverty, transportation and …show more content…
House pricing within the city is expensive, even if the house is in critical condition the prices are affluent. The poor could not maintain themselves in these shambles, so vouchers were created to allow tax dollars to be used to put the poor in better conditioned homes. Although the vouchers worked to help the poor it did not change the social status of segregation between the poor and the rich. It wasn’t until some experimentation went underway in New York in 2004 that changed the outlook of segregation of the rich and poor through education. In one charter school, the curriculum was severe, almost half of the teachers were fired to appeal to the best teachers accessible. Within a few years the education gap between poor and rich, and black-white achievement was eliminated. (Glaeser, 2011) The charter school was successful, it proved that the education and social gap between segregation could be eliminated through combining and integrating different students together within the same schools. By doing so the achievement on state test scores increased in several schools that incorporated integration in their