In today's society, children's education becomes a very important concern for many parents. After living in this world for more than twenty years, parents know that education has great impacts on the lives of their children in many ways, and the amount of knowledge their children acquire from schools can influence their futures and next few generations. Therefore, parents are usually anxious about which school their children will attend, and they always try to send their children to the best school they can afford. However, for those people are living in poverty, they don't have too much choice for their children. Because the city government collects less tax from the low-income families, it will spend less money on the education budget. As a result, the school will not have enough money to hire advanced staffs and upgrade facilities.
             In Luis J. Rodriguez's book, Always Running, he talks about his schools in some parts of his story. Because he was born in a Mexican low-income family, most of the schools that he attended had very bad educational environments. The teachers were not very educated, students usually cut classes, fights among different ethnic group people become traditions in every school year, and some teachers discriminated minority ethnic group students. In Chapter two of Always Running, the author talks about some of his teachers in junior high school. One of his teachers, Mr. Enriquez, was a Cuban refugee, who could hardly speak English. Mrs. Krieger was the science teacher, but she was too old to order the students to behave in classroom. Because the school didn't have enough money to hire well-educated people, and teachers in such schools couldn't get the respects that they should get, the only solution for schools in low-income family areas was to randomly hire someone to fill up the vacancy. In another hand, by hiring such people to be students' teachers, the students couldn't acquire the knowledge th...