Jonathon Kozol Analysis

Jonathon Kozol visited 60 different public schools. He studied the conditions and success and failures of the schools. Kozol is a civil rights activist whose passion came when he began teaching in a minority Boston school. Kozol was affected in seeing the conditions minority children had to learn in. Kozol saw the struggles the students and teachers had to face daily. Many issues were explained in his book from race to politicians and differences in school zones. Realizing that there needs to be a change in the education system in order for students to have a successful outcome.
While Jonathon Kozol attended Harvard and planned to study for a graduate degree in Philadelphia a group of activist went missing. It was learned they were killed …show more content…
Elizabeth believed it wasn’t fair her school was not as pretty as the other schools where. In the Bronx Kozol saw other bad schools in poor condition and with no playground. A school in Harlem did not even have enough chairs for the students to sit. A teacher saw that during the year 69 to 70s there was a major negative change. There was an economic problem and many services were lost. A professor of education at Teachers College in New York believed race was the true issue as to why the services were not available. Kazan believes this tells us kids have a worth. Parents began using private money that was collected under the table to be able to pay extra teachers and to have more classes available for their kids. The parents simply put it as there are cheap kids and expensive kids. Most children that receive preschool and kinder garden are richer children. Many low-income people wanted to take their children to pre-k but the city was unable to provide. Medical attention was also taken from African American communities. African Americans believed if it didn’t matter why it was not taken from everyone and why just from the colored. This shows that there was definitely white privilege in the United States. Richer parents where even able to send their kids to private schools. It seems that although the economy was better for some there was still not money for poor school funding. When Kozol visited P.S. 65 in the Bronx he learned silence was expected in the cafeteria and at recess. The teacher would give a no noise salute to keep the kids quiet it seemed cognition was ordered. There was no happiness in the class of these eight-year-olds. It was as if the children didn’t matter but being quiet and obedient did this school was run as a prison. Students would become embarrassed because their grades would be announced. Only to separate the students based on grades and how well they behaved. At Columbus