Savage Inequalities

Lastly, to be a social problem, it must be able to be solved through social action. Finally, whether people like it or not this is a money first society. They affect large numbers of people. " In many places, "plaster and ceramic tile have peeled off" the walls, leaving the external brick wall of the school exposed. In these interviews we are made aware that the students and faculty members appear to be very knowledgeable about the fact that much of the schools' deficiencies are caused by an economic decline. He illustrates that ever since 1989, which is when the Texas Supreme Court did not go for the old school-financing system, which was based primarily on property taxes, numerous Texas political leaders have continued to look for a way to attain school equity. Louis: The problems have been identified by, along with many others, the U. "Terms such as 'attaint of blood' are rarely used today, and, if they were, they would occasion public indignation; but the rigging of the game and the acceptance, which is nearly universal, of uneven playing fields reflect a dark unspoken sense that other people's children are of less inherent value than our own. This can be seen or interpreted as an equality of innocence. Kozol presents us with the incentive to write this book in the opening paragraph: "I had begun to teach in 1964 in Boston in a segregated school so crowded and so poor that it could not provide my fourth grade children with a classroom. There are no businesses and no services, and frighteningly enough, even the garbage hasn't been picked up since 1987. Most of the urban schools I visited 95 to 99 percent were nonwhite. As a principal in Camden, New Jersey, remarked,

"We spend about $4,000 yearly on each student," he reports, as we are heading to the cafeteria for lunch.