The Argument Between Inequality And Funding For Public Schools

Public school has come a long way. From school just being for White men, then it being for all men, but they had to be separated, then women started being included. School and education has been shown to be unfair in many ways during the 19th century, but now, it has been shown to be unfair to funding. The big argument between inequality and funding for public schools is that not all schools get the same amount of money for their schools compared to others. In the book “Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance”, it states that taxes are the substantial source to public school funding. Not just taxes, but property taxes, so all together money is the main concern.

Public school funding is so unfair to the amount of money given to each school.

According to Witt, the functionalist view sees public education as social integration, socialization, and social order, and all these parts have a specific meaning. Social integration comes into part when listing the five functions of education, which is, transmitting culture, promoting social integration, providing training and social control, stimulating culture innovation, and providing childcare. All these different functions are served by socializing with one another, and realizing how education in school has become very diverse by the many students that are in school, as well as their background. Similarly, the interactionist view explains how students tend to learn many life norms, and values in the classroom. Skills are also importantly learned in classroom, but not just any skills, interpersonal skills that relate to communicating, problem solving, body language, listening, etc. Classrooms aren’t just shared by the students, but teachers as well, and in the interactionist view, teachers have certain expectations on a student's achievement and performance. These expectations then make students want to work harder and better in school. All of these factors have to do with interaction and learning, which is done by many people in one place. Both the functionalist and interactionist view see school as a learning place, where you interact and socialize with one another, and were school

Schools inequality, and negative functions are reinforced by how they have unequal funding, tracking, hidden curriculum, credentialism. Tracking, and funding in school is unequal by how schools get an irregular amount of funding each year, and how the tracking of the amount of money given is not done. Hidden curriculum can then come into play because students don’t know what’s the objective of them learning a certain standard, or what they have to obtain by the end of their current grade level, or just in general by the end of their schooling. The inequality of credentialism relates to the teachers, maybe even faculty, since every teacher teaches different subjects, and within each subject, one teacher may be more educated than the other. Public schools, or just teachers within those public schools can hide much from an individual,or student, so much as facts involved in class, by which make that teachers then biased. Reports of such things have been seen in this school