"Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid" Quote #4

"There are expensive children and there are cheap children,"

(Pg.45 Marina Warner)

Most would look at this quote and say, "How pretentious are you to classify children by how much money they are worth." However this quote is right in its meaning of saying that there are children raised in rich learning-environments and neighborhoods. Money allows one to get a better education however not all those that go to schools more fortunate then schools in poorer areas end up going farther then those apart of poorer neighborhoods. The values of the education are decided by the students that go there, if they don't use what's there then that's their prerogative. Money is the main cause of social class boundaries.

"Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid" Quote #2

"Many people seem to be attracted to the argument that money may not mater much at all."

(Pg. 46 Jonathan Kozol)

The reason we have social classes are not just based around race. Social classes are created, mainly, due to money itself, the richer an area, the better the education should be. However this doesn't solve the arguments for richer areas whose school systems are faulty at best. Money is the main cause of the social class boundaries.

"Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid" Quote #3

"...we do not have the things you have. You have clean things. We do not have. You have a clean bathroom. We do not have that. You have Parks and we do not have Parks. You have all the thing and we do not have all the thing. Can you help us?"

(Pg. 44 Eight-year-old to Jonathan Kozol)

This is just unacceptable. An eight-year-old, shouldn't have to ask for this kind of help at this age or any age of person in school should not have to ask for help with things such as clean bathrooms and parks. The main reasoning behind why this eight-year-old doesn't have these "things" is because the area is most likely poor, and devoid of money to fix these problems. Money is the main cause of social class boundaries.

"Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid" Quote #1

"This," he told me, pointing to the garbage bag, then gesturing around him at the other indications of decay and disrepair one sees in ghetto schools much like it elsewhere, "would not happen to white children." (Pg. 44 Kozol and an Elementary School Principle)

      This quote struck me as something relating almost directly to our prompt as it shows a Elementary School Principal showing his discontent with the conditions of the school itself caused by an area of low social class that doesn't have the money to fix such things. Things like these should not be the regular for our elementary school students, but because of the social class of the area this is the norm. There isn't enough money to go around in the area for it to be fixed or for anyone to do anything about it. Money is the main cause of the social class boundaries.