When I read this
book, I feel so sad about these children. They are so young, and so innocent.
But they cant accept good education, good condition of living, only because
they were born in a poor family. It is just so unfair to them. They did not do
anything wrong, but they have to experience these situation. Especially for
those children who have great dreams to be a doctor, to be a lawyer, or to be a
nurse, it is so hard for them. The fact is only a few of them can go to the
college. As described in the book Savage Inequalities, most children can go to
the preschool, but then a few of them will drop from school, the rest of them
will go to a high school. Then a few of them can go to the college if they are
lucky enough. What a pity. These children have rights to get education, even
for the basic is enough for them. But the fact is they can’t get it, only
because they are from a poor family.
We can see from
the book, there are only 58 percent of men and women 17 and older in North
Lawndale had no jobs during 20 century. They don’t have jobs to make money, and
they can’t make money. It is already so hard for them to live, no matter to
supply basic education for their children. This part of land seems to be
ignored by the country, so their children are also be ignored on some degree. Education
is really a luxury thing for them. Their parents are not don’t want to work,
but they have no chances. Their children are not don’t want to go to school,
but they also don’t have chance. The government did not supply enough resource
for these people. One of reasons is that because they are black. They think it
is not worth to invest to the black people. They prefer to give much more
opportunity to the white people. What’s sad is that these children totally know
what had happened there. They know the different treatment between the white
and the black. They know the white children can go to a good school while they
can only go to a bad school. They don’t say it, but they understand their
situation. Back to the old days, the
black people struggled a lot, most of them live in poor, and their life is full
of violence, drug and death. So we can know what kind of life they are living.
Even they can go to school, but they are still far behind. The teachers are not
so excellent as the teachers in the white school. For example, some teachers
don’t know what they are going to teach, because they are not trained
professionally. Some teachers just do their own business during the class. Even
they have teachers to teach them, but the quality is poor. So most of them have
poor ability in reading. Another big problem is the poor structure of the
building. They don’t have enough restroom, no lab, no books, and no study
materials. So they only know what the teachers tell them. for the teachers,
they cant be fired even they did not do well in their work. Some of them will
work until retired. So most of them just want to make some money for their
living, but do not want to spend lots of time and energy to teach these children.
Also they are not paid for the extra hours or the extra materials they need. They
seem to live in a separate world.
As we see in the documentary Waiting for Superman, most of teachers are working ten years, or twenty years without being fired. for those parents who can afford their children to go to school, they prefer not go to public school, but go to private school. because they do not trust the public school, they think the public school cant teach well. education is said to be the right for every people, but for those white and the black, the rich and the poor. it never be faired. for us, we have no power to change it, but for our government, they can do something in education. we need to make the gap between the rich and the poor smaller, arrange the resource more even. for the current situation, 80 percent of people have only 20 percent of wealth, while only few of us are so rich. it is just so unfair for most of us.
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