In Savage Inequalities, the author, Jonathan Kozol, writes about public schools not having the same consideration as suburban schools. Through the years of 1988 to 1990, Kozol went to cities like East St Louis, the Bronx, Chicago, Harlem, Jersey City, and San Antonio. He went to 30 different neighborhoods to visit schools. The conditions of these schools are very horrible; They lack heat, have limited supplies, no lab equipment, toxic fumes, and sewer backups. These conditions often lead to schools closing due to heavy rain or snow. These conditions also cause students in these schools to suffer as well because the teachers do not care most of the time and they believe the children are not going anywhere. These children do not have the same
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For instance, Kozol visited a middle school in Camden, New Jersey and there weren't enough books for every child in the class. When visiting a math class, an eighth-grader was not able to put five and two together. In science, students were performing a lab without the proper lab materials, and because of this, they were not able to see the actual outcome of the experiment they were testing. It does not just happen in middle schools but as well in high school. Kozol visited Camden High School, and they cannot afford facilities for lunch, so about 2,000 students leave school to get lunch elsewhere, and many of them do not bother coming back which leads to the dropout and non attendance rates to be very high according to the principal of the school. To add on, they have a lack of funds which leads to limited materials for every child. It is also unfortunate yet understandable that the school is losing many students. According to Linnell Wright, one of the teachers' who has worked at Camden High for six years, said, "six hundred children enter ninth grade, by eleventh grade we have about 300..." (Page 110). It is also very unfortunate that the children who do want to learn, are very bright, and have the chance to go to a four-year college, do not get the same opportunity as they do in the suburbs for advanced classes to prepare them for college because there are no funds or facilities to do
For instance, Kozol visited a middle school in Camden, New Jersey and there weren't enough books for every child in the class. When visiting a math class, an eighth-grader was not able to put five and two together. In science, students were performing a lab without the proper lab materials, and because of this, they were not able to see the actual outcome of the experiment they were testing. It does not just happen in middle schools but as well in high school. Kozol visited Camden High School, and they cannot afford facilities for lunch, so about 2,000 students leave school to get lunch elsewhere, and many of them do not bother coming back which leads to the dropout and non attendance rates to be very high according to the principal of the school. To add on, they have a lack of funds which leads to limited materials for every child. It is also unfortunate yet understandable that the school is losing many students. According to Linnell Wright, one of the teachers' who has worked at Camden High for six years, said, "six hundred children enter ninth grade, by eleventh grade we have about 300..." (Page 110). It is also very unfortunate that the children who do want to learn, are very bright, and have the chance to go to a four-year college, do not get the same opportunity as they do in the suburbs for advanced classes to prepare them for college because there are no funds or facilities to do