Equal Opportunity In Public Schools

How is equal opportunity defined and does a culture have any effect on this. In our world today there is equal opportunity for the privileged but for the rest of us there is no equal opportunity. If you go to the inner city of Detroit and look at the public schools or the schools in a reservation the facilities are poorly taken care off. Teachers don't have any proper materials to support kids and the school is a run down and disgusting facility. This cause kids to not want to learn at all, but if you look at the schools in these places they are schools with most kids in the minority. This shows the culture that we live in. society has left our minorities in the dust. This is unacceptable. If you look at the NATIVE Americans reservations most …show more content…
“ I was born with water on the brain. Okay, so that's not exactly true. I was actually born with too much cerebral spinal fluid inside my skull. But the cerebrospinal fluid is just the doctors' fancy way of saying brain grease. And brain grease works inside the lobes like car grease works inside an engine. It keeps things running smooth and fast. But weird me, I was born with too much grease inside my skull, and it got all thick and muddy and disgusting, and it only mucked up the works. My thinking and breathing and living engine slowed down and flooded.” Junior has many disabilities and he is beat up at res for that. Kids at school beat him except for his best friend rowdy who always protects him but he has major anger issues because of his abusive father. This is a problem because when junior goes to a white school for better education rowdy flips out and punches him in the face. Junior goes through losing his best friend and pain just to get a better education because he can't in is res. One big problem is that this and all the other problems aren't new. Minorits have been mistreaded and underresedntited for may years. Here is another quote from absolutely true to show you