In The One plus one by Jojo Moyes, we meet Tanzie, who is extremely talented in mathematics. She has great possibilities to develop and get a good education, but one thing is ruining her hopes. Unfortunately for her and her family, her mother is a single mum and cannot afford to put her in a good school. Tanzie is still lucky to have a school to go to in a greater perspective, as there is people having much bigger problems in other parts of the world. Inequality and poverty is causing big difficulties, including child labour and totally non-educated generations. Still, Tanzie doesn`t have the same opportunities as the children she is together with. Education is extremely important and every child should have the same possibilities as long as it is possible. How are we going to solve this? Because the problems need action. How are we going to reduce the inequality in school?
Inequality makes differences in different people`s opportunities. There will always be differences between people and that’s how it is. The problem is however, for instance, how people from poor families have a significant lower chance of achieving their objectives. As there becomes a large spectre of social difference in a society, the less fortunate will not be able to compete against the
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As well as an economic fee, it will demand that everyone in the process does its best. That is extremely hard to accomplish. It will as said be difficult to manage to get quality in every part of the school system, but I still see it as the only opportunity in order to solve the problem. The effects of great inequality in school will also be huge on a longer term. There might be even bigger consequences if we don`t start to reduce the dissimilarities in the nearest future. Over time, I think these costs will overcome the ones of auctioning now, and turn into even negatively greater. We don`t know the penalties of these yet. Something tells me that we ever won`t want to know