Savage Inequalities: Children In America's Schools Summary

After reading an article called, ”Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools,” by Jonathan Kozol it was quite sad how people lived in such inhumane conditions. The reason is in the article it talked about kids had a higher risk of getting asthma because they were exposed to raw sewage, as well as, at times when there was too much raw sewage so they weren’t even able to go to school. However, I believe the saddest part of the article was when they finished describing the school and talked to the students. There was one student who was asked if it was fair to pay more taxes if it was possible. Instead, of author hearing the child say we would like to help in someway or agree that busing is a better option. Instead, the student said, “I don't’ see how that benefits me (Kozol 4).” This quote shows how some of these students particular is …show more content…
Prejudice is, “ a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority. In the article, it said how the students from the rich neighbor didn’t really want people from East St. Louis to go to their school since they believed it wouldn’t fix the issue and the people from they considered a ghetto“lack the motivation” to be in school (Schaefer 240). This article also dealt with discrimination since most of the people in the poorer community were African American. As well as, it dealt with institutional discrimination which is, “The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society (Schaefer 244).” This was shown throughout the article since most of the teachers in the poor community were laid off and were usually permanent substitute teachers who were only paid $10,000 a year. While in the affluent society they spent more than 30 thousand dollar just on the auditorium and had more classes available like