Education Is The Great Equalizer Analysis

After reading these two article, I agree that “Education is the Great Equalizer”. When Kozal talks about how schools are financed largely by local property taxes, wealthier communities are able to offer higher salaries, purchase newer texts and equipment, and thereby provide their children better education, it reminded me why the whites schools does not want to accept the poor community student on the school. This shows how Education is the Great Equalizer because if it was the key of success, then why would they denied the nonwhites student to attend to the school district.
The division of whites and nonwhites started when the government provide opportunities for the whites only. This is what divide our society because when policies were made, the nonwhites were not included at all. And that why differing spaces exist because the whites are not willing to share space with the minorities. When I watched The House We Live in and see how segregated it was, I almost cried because I see the whites family running away to the nonwhites just because of …show more content…
The school was doing terrible and nobody takes action to improve the quality of the education. When Michael Brown was mentioned and how terrible he was performing academically, I was just chocked to see how evil our school department is. They were just passing the students for being present in class. This is the reason why the whites are doing much better in life because they have the privileged to go to better school that prepared them for life. However, I was a little disappointed to see the white’s parents trying to deny the black kids opportunities. I believe every parent want the best for their kids regardless of their race. But the white family were not willing to put themselves on the black family position to see how sad it is to take away an opportunity that could have built a better