Savage Inequalities Summary

I thought the article Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol (1991) was very informative. I would like to first start off by addressing the question Kozol offered at the beginning of the reading: How can we achieve both equity and excellence in education? In the article it reads that the solutions that have been proposed to achieve such matter are approximate but not reaching equity. It justifies by saying there’s no such thing as being able to reach fairness, but being close to through the means of justice. However, in some circumstances were not even close to having justice, in fact were way from it. Kozol then begins discussing the differences between school of different classes and races he faced in his observations that make it impossible to reach this much desire equity and

She goes on to say how the ceiling is ruined, the bathroom stalls need doors and how there isn’t a playground around. She also talks about how the school’s basement is the cafeteria for the teachers. Now, this really caught my attention. When I was in high school, I remember that the teachers had a whole living room inside the school for them to eat their lunch or to rest during their conference period. This made me think that the teachers always had it “good”. By good I mean that it never crossed my mind that the instructors as well as students were suffering from inequalities. I always believed it was only the students that did. The students were the ones who suffered from not getting enough textbooks or not providing sufficient supplies. But in reality, this article helped me open my eyes to see that also the whole faculty, staff and schools are in this together. How is a student going to learn if the teachers do not have the proper and/or sufficient equipment? Why are other schools, such as the one I went, are getting more benefits than the others