Barbara Ehrenreich Losing Ground Analysis

Education is an essential factor in today people's lives. Education is the main factor in becoming independent and to get a well-paid job. There is amount of segregation in schools is a problem that is rarely given attention to. People think that schools have made a lot of progress in recent years. However, schools have stopped becoming less segregated than they were several decades ago. On the contrary, schools are resegregating and becoming more divided than they were before. In many large cities, especially in places like schools, the poor are seen as different from everyone else. In an article by Barbara Ehrenreich How I Discovered the Truth About Poverty, the author explains that more than 50 years ago “the culture …show more content…
In the book “Losing Ground” (Ehrenreich, 608) the author states that there is no way to help poor, we are not able to help them with material circumstances because it is only going to make worse for them.The same time the kids are divided into two groups expensive and cheap. Expensive kids get a better education and for the rest as little as possibly is spend on their education, because they are cheap. Most of the kids of the rich parents start their education at very young age, they are enrolled in very expensive preschools that poor parents cannot afford, and by the time they ready to go to school they are far ahead of the ones who were not able to go to one. Money is one of the major issues in the educational process. People who have money are able to choose when and where they are sending their kids to study, the poor ones have no choice at all. In the Article, Still Separate, Still Unequal, Kozol also tells us about a school called Martin Luther King Jr. High School located in New York City. It was given such a name and built in a rich white neighborhood in hopes that it would draw more upper-class white students, as stated by the New York Times, “a prominent effort to integrate white, black and Hispanic students in a thriving neighborhood that held one of the city’s cultural gems.” However, 40 years later, it is a school for the poor colored students who cannot go to better schools and is an important example of how segregation is still in schools, and as described by Kozol, “It stands today as one of the nation’s most visible and problematic symbols of expectation rapidly receding and a legacy substantially betrayed” It clearly shows reluctance from wealthy people to allow their children to attend the school and the same unwillingness we can see in not helping poor