Article Summary In her article “When Class Became More Important to a Child’s Education Than Race,” Sarah Garland (2013) explains how, “In 1963, kids in the 10th percentile of income fell behind children in the upper echelon of wealth by about a year or so. Today, that gap is closer to four years” (1). She does a phenomenal job at going into depth on this main idea by including factual information like dates, percentages, and resources to get her point across to the readers.
In her article, Garland discusses the type of money that upper and middle class families have, what exactly they do with it, and how this sets them apart from the less privileged families. Garland talks about how one upper class family, the Klaitman-Smalls’ have huge investments in their children, and how that is, “Becoming the norm for families like theirs who are in the top tiers of the country’s distribution” (2). Garland goes on to say that, “These resources the affluent are pouring into their children are also driving a growing divide between academic outcomes of the children of the well-to-do and those of everyone else’s kids” (2). By saying such statements in her …show more content…
Garland incorporates this study into her article to later say herself, that “It’s everyone trying to take care of their kids, but if you have a lot of money, you can do all of them, the Mandarin, the lacrosse, the SAT tutoring, the camps” (4), which she believes is what makes those who can get all of those extra things, more likely to succeed and able to fill those seats in the highly selective schools. Garland then adds that “Parents in the top quintile of income in the U.S, now spend more than double what parents in the second quintile spend” (4), which shows another disadvantage for the underprivileged
In her article, Garland discusses the type of money that upper and middle class families have, what exactly they do with it, and how this sets them apart from the less privileged families. Garland talks about how one upper class family, the Klaitman-Smalls’ have huge investments in their children, and how that is, “Becoming the norm for families like theirs who are in the top tiers of the country’s distribution” (2). Garland goes on to say that, “These resources the affluent are pouring into their children are also driving a growing divide between academic outcomes of the children of the well-to-do and those of everyone else’s kids” (2). By saying such statements in her …show more content…
Garland incorporates this study into her article to later say herself, that “It’s everyone trying to take care of their kids, but if you have a lot of money, you can do all of them, the Mandarin, the lacrosse, the SAT tutoring, the camps” (4), which she believes is what makes those who can get all of those extra things, more likely to succeed and able to fill those seats in the highly selective schools. Garland then adds that “Parents in the top quintile of income in the U.S, now spend more than double what parents in the second quintile spend” (4), which shows another disadvantage for the underprivileged