In Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol describes the surroundings of numerous public schools in America. Between the years of 1988 and1990, he visited schools in roughly 30 different neighborhoods and found that there was a wide gap in the circumstances between the poorest inner-city school communities and schools in the wealthier suburban communities. How are there such huge differences within public school systems of a country that claims to provide equal opportunity for all? It becomes evident to John that many underprivileged children begin their young lives with an education that is far poorer, then to those children who grow up in communities that are wealthier. They are not given an equal chance from the beginning.
Although all children are required to attend school until age 16, there are major differences in schools in which they appear to be drawn along lines of race as well as social class. Kozol studies how the unequal financial support of schools correlates to social......
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