ed; ironically, they are also predominately black minority schools. The average class is way above 30 pupils per room. It is so ludicrous, that teachers are forced to hold class in the library, and that administrators have meetings in the nurse's office at times when she is not working. This overcrowding problem severely affects the ability of the students to learn anything because teachers cannot give much personalized attention to any one student. Whereas at Riverdale, classes reach 23 students a class and they even have classrooms for thegifted? students to study. The populations of the two minority schools are around 1500 while the Riverdale is approximately 900. However, Riverdale, which is split into two schools receives much more funding than both of the low-income schools do. Towards the end of the essay the author implies that school boards, whether racially motivated or not, think it's a waste of time and money to equally fund poor minority schools because it is impossible to make the schools any better. Lastly, he states that the minority children understand the negative label that has been associated with them. As a consequence, the children willact the part? by living lives of crime or lives that do not amount to much. The author did a thorough job going to the three schools and comparing the differences between them. The one problem with these comparisons is that they are two extremes; many middle-income schools have the same problems that low-income schools have just not to the same degree. His opinion is too rigid for only
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