Disadvantage Of Public Education

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Since when have little kids have to be in a lottery to go to a good school? Philip Davis Guggenheim, an American film and television director and producer, illustrates in his documentary the various problems that we have in our public education system. One of the problems Guggenheim discusses in his film is that people from lower-income neighborhoods don't have the same education as well as upper class due to school funding. Schools in low-income neighborhoods are more disadvantage than schools in rich communities because they receive better quality materials,better teachers,more money from the state,and the tax money received from the citizens who live in those communities. In the film they called these disadvantage schools “drop out factories”.

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