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- Political_science Public Schools
. Kozol feels that the way in which we fund public schools is arcane and unfair (54). Since most
areas in the US rely on property tax in order to fund education, the poorer districts are at a
disadvantage over the wealthy districts because of lack of income. This is a problem because the
wealthy schools keep getting wealthier and the poor schools keep getting poorer. For example
Kozol points to the inner city schools of Chicago in comparison with a suburban high school
(New Trier). He states that the schools like New Trier receive about $90000 more dollars a year
than the inner city schools, when the inner city schools could really use that money to fix up the
facilities, improve the curriculum, and provide the teachers with better salaries and resources. If
you take a look at the arguments being made on pages 54-56 you will see that Kozol points
specifically to the property tax as a problem in education funding. “The very poor communities
place high priority on education, and they often tax themselves at higher rates than do the very
affluent communities,” (55).
The problem with this is that even though the lower class is taking more money and trying
to put it towards education, it is not going to even out because the suburbs have more money
coming back to them that they can throw at schools in order to finance education. He also states
on these pages that consistent inequality of education will lead to continued inequality all through
the loves of children of urban areas. I have to agree with Kozol and his findings with respect to
property tax because of how I was raised. I have never been in a situation where I had to settle
for the “second best” when it came to education. I was fortunate enough to attend a school
system that offered a wide array of opportunities and had lots of property tax money to distribute
among the schools and curriculums to keep it interesting, innovative, and exciting. I agree that
there is an unfair burden that hangs over those not only in really urban areas, but also in extremely
rural cases as in the school district 20 minutes down the street from me. This is an issue that
appeared a lot in Kozol’s discussion and will be brushed upon again here and there later on in the
essay.
The second thing that is discussed that directly relates to what Kozol targeted as the
problems with education and funding, is the possible things that we can do to change the way that
things are handled in these si...
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