Summary Of Shame Of The Nation By Jonathan Kozol

In regards to Jonathan Kozol’s essay Shame of The Nation, believes that apartheid schooling is prevalent in America and it has worsen overtime. He uses this essay to open the eyes of Americas who might not be aware of the apartheid school system in urban America today. This essay also showed how segregation is caused not by force, but by factors working together to keep blacks and Hispanics stuck in the inner city while middle class, mostly whites, move outward. A phenomenon that has been established to keep minorities at the lower socio-economic domain in society.

The state of inner city schools has declined significantly. Horrible physical conditions, very limited resources, low expectations for the future of its students, prison-like behavior

In addition to that, there is a problem with the lack of necessary resource in a school. Whether this is seen in only a few schools or a lot, it is unacceptable and must be fixed. How can we expect these students to learn, work, and live on an equal playing field when they don’t even have books, while others have every resource you could ever want in a school? We have this idea of education being the panacea of world struggle, but is it really? When we have all these schools that are not fairly treated. And good teachers are often found in the better schools for various reasons, one of which is the better pay and more flexible

The upper classes can rest (fairly) assured that most desperately poor mothers won’t come knocking on their doors, asking for cash, a meal, a place to stay, or the loan of a car. But many poor mothers will (reluctantly) knock on the doors of the working-poor and working-class people who are their friends and relatives. It is there people who will share their homes, their food, and their incomes and provide practical help with childcare and transportation. There good deeds won’t appear on any income tax forms, welfare case reports, or analyses of charitable spending. But this burden on low-income working people will be one of the very real, and largely invisible, costs of welfare reform. And it will surely exacerbate existing income inequalities” (Hay,