Inequalities in Schools
The audio by Nancy Solomon about Columbia high offers insights to what people of color go through in most schools. Normally, racism is thought to affect the low-income earners but as we note here, Columbia high school is a middle-class institution, and yet the effects of inequality are so visible. No doubt that even the middle class are affected by the disparity (Beta.prx.org).
The most shocking detail revealed by Nancy Solomon is the one can be able to tell the different levels based on the composition of the class in terms of race! This shows just how many schools contribute to increasing the achievement gap. While these levels were introduced as a means to assist those who were considered weak in class, they have …show more content…
The segregation of students based on their abilities sends them a message that they are weak, and that little is expected of them or that there is a limit to what they can achieve. From Nancy’s interview with Columbia high superintendent, the superintendent explains how he met the students from a certain class to enquire whether anything was being done to help them and their response was that it depended on what was expected of them. This shows just how much schools have turned to become institutions where the achievement gap is increased since those in higher levels are expected and encouraged to perform very well while those in lower levels are expected and are left to perform dismally. This translates later on in life to better income, more wealth for those whites at higher levels and lower income and poverty for the colored kids at lower levels. These parents produce kids who later follow the same path that their parents went through, and the cycle …show more content…
These are usually the schools attended by the upper class. The lower classes attend schools with little funding and are essentially deprived of their share of resources (Raudenbush et al., 1998). In California, there were a high number of enrollments of students from upper middle-class families to upper-middle-class high schools offering Advanced Placement subjects. This meant that the students from low-income families were left out. Interventions were made to correct this and the high schools that served the less fortunate and unfortunate students started offering Advanced Placements subjects too. One would think that finally some level of equality had been achieved. However, the schools attended by whites and the advantaged students also increased their Advanced Placement enrollments more than the other schools serving the Latinos and African Americans. The main explanation was that there was a higher demand in schools of the advantaged. This happening in California clearly shows the role played by schools in promoting inequality because here, policies that would reduce inequality were laid out and implemented and yet the schools proved to be the barriers to achieving
The audio by Nancy Solomon about Columbia high offers insights to what people of color go through in most schools. Normally, racism is thought to affect the low-income earners but as we note here, Columbia high school is a middle-class institution, and yet the effects of inequality are so visible. No doubt that even the middle class are affected by the disparity (Beta.prx.org).
The most shocking detail revealed by Nancy Solomon is the one can be able to tell the different levels based on the composition of the class in terms of race! This shows just how many schools contribute to increasing the achievement gap. While these levels were introduced as a means to assist those who were considered weak in class, they have …show more content…
The segregation of students based on their abilities sends them a message that they are weak, and that little is expected of them or that there is a limit to what they can achieve. From Nancy’s interview with Columbia high superintendent, the superintendent explains how he met the students from a certain class to enquire whether anything was being done to help them and their response was that it depended on what was expected of them. This shows just how much schools have turned to become institutions where the achievement gap is increased since those in higher levels are expected and encouraged to perform very well while those in lower levels are expected and are left to perform dismally. This translates later on in life to better income, more wealth for those whites at higher levels and lower income and poverty for the colored kids at lower levels. These parents produce kids who later follow the same path that their parents went through, and the cycle …show more content…
These are usually the schools attended by the upper class. The lower classes attend schools with little funding and are essentially deprived of their share of resources (Raudenbush et al., 1998). In California, there were a high number of enrollments of students from upper middle-class families to upper-middle-class high schools offering Advanced Placement subjects. This meant that the students from low-income families were left out. Interventions were made to correct this and the high schools that served the less fortunate and unfortunate students started offering Advanced Placements subjects too. One would think that finally some level of equality had been achieved. However, the schools attended by whites and the advantaged students also increased their Advanced Placement enrollments more than the other schools serving the Latinos and African Americans. The main explanation was that there was a higher demand in schools of the advantaged. This happening in California clearly shows the role played by schools in promoting inequality because here, policies that would reduce inequality were laid out and implemented and yet the schools proved to be the barriers to achieving