Equality is all we have ever asked for, so why is it difficult to understand and give. In “Still Separate, Still Unequal” written by Jonathan Kozol, describes and addresses the problems with our public schools. Kozol mainly focuses on the racial segregation and the isolation students still face today. He uncovers the inequality the education system puts among their students of color. For example, most of the funding for schools goes primarily to white schools, while giving the minority schools the remains. White children are given a much better learning environment and quality education than African Americans and Hispanics. Kozol uses statistics and percentages to show how segregated schools are. He also addresses the unfairness between low
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It is very important for students to be engaged so that they know that they can succeed in school and life. When Kozol says, “Since that day at P.S. 65, I have visited nine other schools in six different cities where the same Skinnerian curriculum is used” (p13). Minority schools are running on drill-based programs; these curriculums are non-engaging the students are not able to get their hands dirty and most important they are tedious. While suburban wealthier schools are focusing on hands-on, engaging, and enjoyable curriculums. Kozol says, “ In a Seattle neighborhood that I visited in 2002, for instance, where approximately half the families were Caucasian, 95 percent of students at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School were black, Hispanic, native American or of Asian origin” (p6). Neighborhoods are even segregated, we have seen this all the time, there are neighborhoods that are only for hispanics, blacks, asian, white. Making the schools in these neighborhoods diverse but not equal.
Jonathan Kozol used rhetorical strategies very well to show the reader how schools today are still segregated. The students are treated unequally because of their skin color and their race. To prove this his argument Kozol used statistics, percentages, stories from the students and teachers at low-income schools to have an emotional appeal and his own credibility. Even though everyone is the same from the inside out with the only difference of having different traits such as skin color, race and income. We are all still not treated the
It is very important for students to be engaged so that they know that they can succeed in school and life. When Kozol says, “Since that day at P.S. 65, I have visited nine other schools in six different cities where the same Skinnerian curriculum is used” (p13). Minority schools are running on drill-based programs; these curriculums are non-engaging the students are not able to get their hands dirty and most important they are tedious. While suburban wealthier schools are focusing on hands-on, engaging, and enjoyable curriculums. Kozol says, “ In a Seattle neighborhood that I visited in 2002, for instance, where approximately half the families were Caucasian, 95 percent of students at the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School were black, Hispanic, native American or of Asian origin” (p6). Neighborhoods are even segregated, we have seen this all the time, there are neighborhoods that are only for hispanics, blacks, asian, white. Making the schools in these neighborhoods diverse but not equal.
Jonathan Kozol used rhetorical strategies very well to show the reader how schools today are still segregated. The students are treated unequally because of their skin color and their race. To prove this his argument Kozol used statistics, percentages, stories from the students and teachers at low-income schools to have an emotional appeal and his own credibility. Even though everyone is the same from the inside out with the only difference of having different traits such as skin color, race and income. We are all still not treated the