Still Separate Still Unequal Summary

The American education system has been a system that has been heavily criticized not only by other countries, but by the people, especially the students, within America. Many people have voiced their complaints and how the long terms affects the American public school system will have on many future generations making their way into the workforce. However, no one knows what the most troubling thing about the school system that needs changed, because it seems like there is too much that needs to be done. However, the most severe problem with the education system in America is the lack of discussion in the classroom; this lack of discussion leads people to not having thoughtful debates, doesn’t encourage critical thinking, and makes people become …show more content…
However, we are ignorant to what is going on, or we just refuse to see the division that is occurring in America right now. In Still Separate, Still Unequal, Kozol discusses how the divide between the education that whites receive is still much better than the education that minorities receive. In Still Separate, Still Unequal, Kozol describes the many schools he visited, “Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now.” (Kozol, 202) We, as American’s like to believe that we no longer have racial tensions with black and Hispanic people, but they do still exist and it is affecting our school system. Our lack of discussion in school has made us never realize, until we came into the real world they day we graduated, what was really going. We’re separated from the reality that we built because we want to ignore the fact that we have made no progress on making things equal and things still remain separate. We don’t discuss the real world in class, which leads us to being either being unsympathetic and cold to those who deserve the education just as much as we