Social Inequality In Public Schools: Article Analysis

Even at their youngest stages of life, African American males are being told that they’re just following a path to jail from birth. Even figures that as a child you’d look up to are telling young black males that they can’t succeed in this world. The vice-principal of the Rosa Parks School when talking about a young African American male said “That one has a jail-cell with his name on it”. Education institutions are the ones who hold the power to decide and construct who has access to opportunities and resources needed to advance in our capitalist society. The system is setting up African Americans for failure from the start. “The racial bias in the punishing systems of the school reflects the practices of the criminal justice system. Black youth are caught up in the net of juvenile justice system at a rate of two to four times that of white youth”. The profiling starts at a young age as well, planning their future for them. In conclusion, Education Institutions are the ones who hold power in this world. They are the building blocks of the future, as they shape young lives. With institutional racism putting some races ahead of others, however, a majority of students are stunted in their path to adulthood, leading to racial issues and divides that would otherwise not

Due to the discrimination of African-Americans, and oppression resulting from it, the government, justice system, educational system, and society has made it clear that African-American teenagers obtaining a thorough and effective education is the least of their concerns. It is almost as though African-American teenagers are purposely being set up to fail. As stated in “The Oppression of Black People, The Crimes of This System and the Revolution we need”, “Today the schools are more segregated than they have been since the 1960s with urban, predominantly Black and Latino schools receiving fewer resources and set up to fail. These schools more and more resemble prisons

Adolescent Black males throughout the years have been subject and victim to numerous economic, socioeconomic, and environmental disadvantages. In many inner-city neighborhoods, these disadvantages have led to an increase in violence among these adolescent African American males, especially in the educational system. Violence among African American males in schools is something that increases tremendously each year; a 2010 study in Education Week showed that over 70% of the students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement were African American students. This can be explained

The skills that are considered denied are from a lack of education. Education is an important factor in the advancement of an individual. The more an individual knows the better he or she will succeed in society. “Education is a tool that Black America must use for social change, to educate its youths, and to correct the mis-education of and about the Black Community” (Henry, Calvin O.L. “Black Community/ Black America”. Research Room EdChange. Multicultural Pavilion. <http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/calvin.html>,1 of 2.). It is the main concern to the development of black males. According to, Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel writer, Phillip Jackson:

A Broader Problem that plagues Black males are not totally the responsibility of the public schools, but are a responsibility of society as a whole (Delpit, 1995). We can say, however, that the public schools do play a major role in addressing the problems of Black male students. The educational experiences and the support services afforded Black male students could play an

It is easy to point the finger but harder to find a solution as to why the black male child is failing in school. There are several crucial factors that contribute to this epidemic including, parents are not communicating with the teachers, the socioeconomic status of the child 's family, and the father 's absence in the child 's life. Each of these topics intertwine with one another and is preventing a race of young men who will not be given the chance to excel in life.

After reviewing the Government laws and policies that have been in placed and replaced in history and more currently to contribute and correct the issue. The most important question of all remains. Why does the Achievement Gap still exist? According to former Secretary of Education John King (2016) “Black and Hispanic students continue to lag behind their White peers in achievement and graduation rates.”After so many attempts made by the Government to close the Gap and create equality, clearly there is something that is not being addressed across American Public Schools. Frederica Wilson (2013) former state senate member stated in the Brown vs Board Documentary There is such a difference in going to one school in one community and going to another in another community. Why don't we tackle that problem instead of testing the students predicting they will fail, watching them fail and denying them a good life?”The question now that remains how exactly are the schools different in different communities?

While all these possibilities from providing increased educational funding to inner city schools seem to provide a solution to the educational difficulties, the underclass is a multifaceted problem with several contributing factors. For example, the issue of students dropping out of school is not only affected by simply the quality of their education and resources. The appealing allure of drug dealing and belonging to a gang, both behaviors that involve criminal actions that could lead to incarceration, severely entice students from finishing their education. Furthermore, many children lack familial support to complete school. Their families tend to consist of numerous high school dropouts, and, therefore, lack the knowledge that comes from past experience leaving the student at a severe disadvantage. Plus, some family members will even remove the students out of school themselves, because they view the school as a waste of time. Even more detrimental to the underclass are the longstanding problems of unplanned pregnancies, single parent families, racial discrimination, and welfare dependency. With all these contributing obstacles that build upon one another in mind, it may seem pointless to fix the educational issues, so why should society and the government still pursue this option?

Also the harsh, unjust acts we have faced being black, growing up in America. After the passage of Civil Rights Acts, after the Economic opportunity act of 1964, which has paved the way for new rulings, laws, white’s attitudes towards African Americans has improved. This has resulted in providing more opportunities for blacks in America. Even though more opportunities have been open for blacks we still have a lot of progression to accomplish. As stated in the article “high schools in black neighborhoods receive less local, state, and federal support than those in white areas.” This statement supports my point of progression, to improve high schools in black neighborhoods we must gain the support of our community, government, and state to have more interest in educating young African American students. The authors audience seems to be African Americans because he is informing readers of what blacks had to go through as people, and what we must do to continue to improve our people. I feel the authors opinions are valid because he does in fact states opinions I have witnessed myself growing up as an African American in the united states. He expresses how he believes we still have room for progression especially in mostly high populated schools filled with African American students. Majority of schools which are primary dominated by blacks seem to have lower graduations

In the primarily African American cities within the United States education in school systems is absolutely terrible. Not only that but also the children in the schools wouldn’t stay in them long enough to get a high school diploma. This mixed with the preconceptions southern white plantation owners had of African Americans circa 1860 led many people to believe that African Americans were not psychologically equal to people of other races and ethnicities. This series of transitive thinking made me wonder why are these school systems so bad? The answer was simple lack of

Homelessness affects the whole family, as do other societal issues. If a parent has a low income job, then they cannot afford to live in the wealthier, or even middle class, areas. They are forced to live in lower class, struggling areas, which then causes their children to attend struggling schools. These schools are unable to provide the children with the proper level of education, often leading the children to drop out or, if they do graduate, not to attend college. This leaves the children in the same situation as their parents, continuing the vicious cycle. The method of solving homelessness discussed in Sources B and E can benefit the whole family. By giving them a safe, secure place to live that will not be taken away from them, giving the working-age members of the family jobs, and providing them with resources allows them to find their way out of the situation. Source G describes the decrepit areas in which the children and their families live and how these homes contribute to the problem. When describing East St. Louis, Kozol says, “Only three of the 13 buildings on Missouri Avenue, one of the city’s major thoroughfares, are occupied. A 13-story office building, tallest in the city, has been boarded up. Outside, on the sidewalk, a pile of garbage fills a ten-foot crater” (Source G, 7). Areas such as East St. Louis often do not have any career or job

The disparity facing African-Americans in education is cyclic in nature in that if a parent lacks the proper education required to possess a high earning power and as a result become another statistic of the lower class of the economy, hence being unable to provide their children with resources such as tutoring and other services that would help provide educational equity for them, these children are stuck lagging behind their upper-class peers that have access to these resources, leaving them with a lesser quality of education and limiting both their future earning power and their future children’s exposure to better educational resources, hence the cycle of educational disparity that plagues the African-Americans as a race.

Unequal educational opportunities for black students are a huge effect of racial segregation. Education has become a major problem dealing with racial segregation. Education is the foundation of literacy and success in America and African American students and schools are suffering. Schools in the U.S. are retracting back to segregation. As schools districts began to release schools from court order integration schools began to retract increasing test score disparities and national achievement gaps in large amounts not seen in four decades in the south. A national study conducted on the achievement gap between black and white students says “Nationally the achievement gap between whites and blacks during the integration period narrowed but as schools began to be released from court order integration schools became more segregated widening the achievement gap between black and white students” (Jones 1). Because of racial segregation the quality and access to education in African Americans is worsening over the years as school districts stop enforcing integration. But surprisingly, residential segregation has a big play in how well

Similar to his claim, students who live in low income areas struggle to receive a high quality education. According to Benjamin L. Page, a professor of political science at Northwestern University, “Although public education is one of the triumphs of American democracy, the segregation of schools along lines of social class and race has led to inferior education for poor students,” (paragraph 1). This evidence explains how a student’s address and financial situation determines the quality of education that they receive, a very unfair reality of the american public school system. School systems used to be segregated by race because the laws in the united states made it nearly impossible for black students to acquire a higher education. Now, the laws have changed on paper, but in reality students in urban areas are still facing the same unjust situation as black slaves were during frederick douglass’ time.

I think many times we underestimate the black community. School systems in areas with large black populations are failing. The educational system and the overall culture of the individual schools are not good. There happens to be more violence at schools with bigger