The Purpose Of Public Education

The purpose of public education should be to give students a free and equal education. While I do believe that public education provides an abundant education for some, I also believe it hinders and holds back others. Public education gives students a free and unequal education. Inner-city students attend public schools where they lack books and engaged teachers. They are expected to learn without the necessary resources. Inner-city students don’t have the funds they need to gain an equal education. Suburban students who attend public schools are given books and teachers who want to be in the classroom teaching. Suburban students are taught and expected to make it beyond just graduating high school they are taught not to just pass the test but to actually know what they are being tested on. Public education is not an equal …show more content…
. Being a student from an inner-city public school, I was always taught that you have to be twice as good as suburban students because of the statistics society already puts on your abilities. The inequalities of public education is another way to keep inner-city students “down”. They are held behind because they don’t receive an equal education, which creates future disparities. Society places statistics on inner-city children and the unfair public education encourages those statistics. Public education in inner-cities is a way to weed the bad from the good. It is the way that society sees who will help the society rather than harm it. Society believe that those who make it through the harsh inequalities against all odds are the ones who will contribute to a better society and those who are held down by the inequalities will harm our society by taking more than they can give. I believe that the inequalities is intended to keep the rich, rich and the poor,