research and book connections of lowest achieving schools in Bay Area

Marco Cuevas

English 1A

Professor Ms. Williams

2 October, 2013

Poor School Funding

When comparing the information of Savage inequalities and the statistics on the web of the California Department of Education that focused on low achieving schools in California, I was able to acknowledge the pattern of why the education is poor in the areas that appeared but not in a single wealthy city that we see this kind of issue. One of the things that stood out the most to me was that some of the cities that they mention just like Oakland and L.A have a big concentration of minority students. So we can see that minority groups play a big role on deciding the education that students will get living in such towns. For example in the book the author mentions Chicago and we know that there are a big group of minorities in that specific city.

Another point that stuck out the most was the fact that a lot of the cities mentioned on the Lowest Achieving Schools in California seemed to be rural industrial areas. Some of the schools, for example, in the county of Alameda are around a huge Industrial area surrounded for example in Oakland by the Oakland Port which is a major international trading of goods ground . We know that there is a direct correlation with industrial areas and a poor education, due to the circumstances that a lot of the cities in industrial areas often require a lot of people for work and students in bad schools drop out and their only choice is going out to the work-field. Also the fact that in this type of cities violence tends to play a major role in education we can see why students enrolled in some of the schools in the area, have really low performing students.

Due to minorities being a huge population in a city and a city being industrial and communities within a poor city experience great deals of violence and substance abuse individuals, we know that there is social turmoil within the residents of that city. A lot of these issues that low income cities have directly affect the education system within that county and or city. Low income schools a lot of the times do not have the proper pupils in school nor less in a classroom they are often overcrowded which overwhelms a teacher since it is a lot more students, and it makes the learning of students much harder with many other students in the same class. They also a lot of the times ca not provide proper school materials like books, good desks and chairs and good buildings, etc… a lot of the things I mention here can connect to exactly some f the circumstances in other cities outside of the bay area and California in general. We saw in the book for example this issues happening in Chicago, New York and other cities. So we know that education in the United States needs a big reform in their educational system and it need it NOW.