Freemont High School Jonathan Kozol Analysis

The one size fits it all clothing saying is also being applied to our children’s education. In Freemont High School by Jonathan Kozol, students are having trouble with school instead of enjoying it like most children should be enjoying their high school. Students are having obstacles to continuing their education by complaining that there is no air conditioning in classes, not enough courses, restrooms being closed, substitute teachers, and the library being occupied.
In the passage “some of the classrooms ‘do not have air conditioning,’ so that the students ‘become red-faced and unable to concentrate’ during the extreme heat of summer’’ (Kozol, 718-719). The children in the passage complain that they are unable to concentrate in the heat. Students should be able to concentrate on school work and succeed in what they want to be instead they have to worry about the heat in class. Students should not worry if they will get sick due to heat or end up in hospital due to heat exhaustion. …show more content…
Students have been taking classes that have no relationship to what they want to study. If a student were working, for example, working at a restaurant or fast food place the school was giving the student half a credit for working. Students should not be getting a half a credit for something they are leaning nothing about just life skills which everyone learns on their own. Students should be able to decide what classes they want and enjoy there courses and not be