The Importance Of Social Inequality In Education

An individual’s pathway to success is crucially shaped by the class they are born in. Their class background and neighborhoods determine where their children go to school. While affluent students have options to go to high-quality public schools or private schools, low-income students have limited school options. From elementary school to high school, inequality has persisted through the lack of resources and lowered teacher expectations for low-income students. In college, low-income students still lack the resources necessary to graduate from college and get a job. The educational systems’ failure to change social inequality reinforces the inequality that is already there. Schools can disrupt these inequalities by accommodating the lower class in all stages of education. Elementary and secondary institutions are the first to fail their students as teachers stimulate the seeds of doubt in low-income students and lack the resources to support them. Teachers indirectly plant the seeds of doubt through their …show more content…
Elementary school teachers continue to praise some children and disregarding other children who could have the potential to continue on to high school. In high school, resources are disproportionally distributed so that schools in high-income neighborhoods have more money to push students to college than low-income neighborhoods. In college, the upper-class triumphs since they can use their connections to get jobs whereas low-income students are forced to either continue to struggle in college or drop out and work in remedial jobs. Some of the ways to at least make a stance against the inequality in education are having small class sizes, using charter schools so that students can be adequately prepared for college and providing mentors who can give encouragement and understand where low-income students come