In the book Savage and Inequalities Jonathan Kozol investigates the inequalities that take place in the American educational system. Kozol starts by exploring the disparity and heartbreak that occurs among America’s rich suburban schools and poor inner-city schools. The poor inner-city schools are not given the same opportunities and funding as the rich suburban schools are. From 1988 to 1990 Jonathan Kozol explores various locations in America such as New Jersey, Washington DC, New York, Chicago, East Side Louis, Missouri, and San Antiono, Texas. What Kozol’s finds is something that people thought that United States solved years ago…. Segregation. The young citizens of African American and Hispanic neighborhoods are not given the same basic rights and privileges as citizens of the Caucasian neighborhoods are given. The public education system should not be based off of ethnicity it should be free and equal to people of all economic classes. America is known as the home of the free and the equal, in “Savage and Inequalities we truly explore if that statement …show more content…
In North Lawndale for instance fifty percent of men and women seventeen and older had no jobs due to the factories leaving the area. When the factories left the North Lawndale the majority of citizens lost their jobs. With the amount of jobs decreasing every day the crime rate and poverty levels began to rise. “As the factories have moved out, he says, the street gangs have moved in. Driving with me past a sprawling redbrick complex that was once the world headquarters of Sears, Roebuck, he speaks of the increasing economic isolation of the neighborhood: “Sears is gone. International Harvester is gone, Sunbeam is gone. Western Electric has moved out. The Vice Lords, the Disciples and the Latin Kings have, in a sense, replaced them (Pg. 51).” Lawndale is one of the many cities with high crime rates and low educational