In my University Studies class, we had to read a book that had
to do with different problems that are going on in the United States. First off, we had to find partners, so,
Carrie Ryder and I was interested in the same book, therefore we became
partners.
The book we read was Savage Inequalities, by Jonathan
Koloz. Jonathan Koloz was an elementary
school teacher until the day he was fired for giving a forth grade class a poem
to read that was “to advanced” for them.
When really the poem should have been right at their level. After this incident, Koloz decided that
someone need to start listen to the children and to see what they had to say,
he decided that person was going to be him.
On his journey to finding gout what children had to say, the majority of
the time he found that they were more common sense and street smart then book
smart. The kids know more about their
surroundings then how to do things like 2+2.
In schools like in East St. Louis, the facilities are poorly
developed. Their bathrooms only work
part of the time, sewage lines the streets, and they are too many students for
the amount of book they have. Education
should be equal for every child, no matter where they live or the color of
their skin.