Spencer talks about how the views society shared upon the poor that were sometimes incorrect, “In particular, the children of the “ghetto” were thought to be educationally and culturally “deprived,” and it was up to the schools to compensate for the alleged deficits in their attitudes and skills.” (Spencer 4) People from middle and upper class were willing to aid although they still held pre-assumptions and judgment of those beneath them. Spencer also talks about compensatory education in the following way that compensatory education was often seen as an immediate problem solver. Compensatory education’s meaning in the context is that it helped the students but there was vast fundamental issues in the community, “the most significant problem
