School resources

Lana Lopez Lopez 01

Ms. Williams

English 1A

02, October 2013

School resources

Providing resources unequally within school districts can negatively impact  children's education. Children need many different types of resources to keep up with the new technology that now is standard in the real world. In Savage Inequalities Kozol visits public school 26 in District 10 and states “The school, I am told, has 26 computers for its 1,300 children” (Kozol 107). How are these children that go to school 261 suppose to acquire computer skills when there are 50 students for every one computer. Also public school 24 (Riverdale) in District 10 received computers as Kozol states “ The local board decided to give each elementary school equal number of computers, even though the schools in Riverdale had smaller classes and far fewer students”(Kozol 103). Though the board “equally” distributed computers it should have been done by student population. Due to the fact that the students in school 261 have larger class sizes they already suffer from lack of one on one attention, they should at least be given enough computers to do class activities to learn computer skills like other privileged children do in their district. Resources like computers make a huge impact and can change a child's educational outcome.

A child feels that he or she is cheated when they visit other schools that are kept up and provided with simple things such as: pencils, paper and text books. Children are very perceptive and although they may never acknowledge they feel this way as adults we see the disappointment in their faces.  Children in these districts start to feel betrayed by the education system and loose hope as young as 12 years old. For this part of the district it means no growth in education because this child will grow to be another uneducated parent and the cycle will continue until a change is made. Children need certain resources to feel that they are getting an equal education to give them the drive to strive for change and until this happens the circle will continue.

The types of citizens that are produced from lack of poorly funded public schools

are adults who occupy unskilled or in-demand jobs not careers. Due to these poorly funded schools children give up on going to college and striving for a higher education and settle for jobs such as: “ ‘cosmetology’ (hairdressing, manicures)(Kozol 92).” These children are falling into the gap the government wants them to fall into. Instead of fighting against the grain and making the best out of what they have and or doing fund-raisers and coming up with some type of conclusion of their own these adults just let the government keep them in the unskilled job market. By making a change and creating your own better education it will instill the importance of education to the younger generations.