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When students aren’t provided with materials for a bright future a dark path begins to set in. Students begin to loose hope as young as 12 and become course teenagers who turn into rough edge adults. These adults become addicts and are uneducated, due to not being funded with the materials needed for even a minimal education. If these adults were cared for as students they would have had a better chance of becoming educated adults with a brighter future. Simple materials such as paper, pens and books may not seem like much but they can make all the difference in a young child's basic education which can lead to a better future. 

When wealthy children are provided with materials needed for a quality education  they begin to make assumptions of how lower class children will turn out. For example “ ‘a child’s in school only six hours in a day,’... ‘ You’ve got to deal with what is happening at home. If his father’s in the streets, his mother’s using crack... how is money going to make a difference?’ (Kozol 157).”  Wealthy children begin to build self entitlement and a barrier against the less fortunate children. Wealthy children should be willing to share the benefits they are fortunate enough to have instead of speaking down upon the lower class. By always providing the wealthy with an exceeding amount of funding their will always be a large gap in economic difference between upper and lower class education instead of equal education in the United States.

Sadly due to lack of school resources students with learning disabilities may never be diagnosed. According to Kozol 19 year old Raymond Abbott attended school in Camden and became “ a high school dropout with the reading skills of a child in seventh grade. A learning-disabled student who spend eight years in the Camden public schools, his problems were never diagnosed and he was passed on each year from grade to grade... It’s elementary schools lacked the staff to deal with learning disabilities.... Abbott, now a cocaine addict, heard the news of his belated vindication from a small cell in the Camden County Jail (Kozol 208).” Students like Raymond suffer from learning disabilities and are never taught to deal with them due to lack of resources. If Raymond would have had the help necessary to be a successful student his future may have turned out completely different. If resources aren’t provided for student’s like Raymond then there will be many other needy learning disabled children who unfortunately may suffer this same fate.