Summary Of Savage Inequalities

In Jonathan Kozol’s book Savage Inequalities he discusses the differences in education between schools from different races and wealth communities. Kozol did observations on a variety of public schools in St. Louis, Bronx, and Rye both in New York. Kozol visits the areas where he explains how it is unsanitary and very low on staff that lacks the basic tools and supplies for teaching. For some schools it has very outdated equipment that has been there for at least 40-50 years old. Kozol adds on and contrast the conditions poor living and how children adapt in those environments and how they live and learn. In Irl Solomon’s history class where is reside in St. Louis. Before teaching he lasted one semester at Brandeis University pursing law, but decided it was not for him. Since then he’s been teaching history for almost 30 years. Solomon stated, “Go and find the toughest place there is to teach. See if you like it; I’m still here…” Solomon then explains how his class is explained and how majority of the females in his class are pregnant or already have a child. Then it goes into depth on why students from poorer areas is useless to
Louis and the Bronx are actually the same. She explains how both have no obstetric services, no trash collection and fewer jobs. She describes St. Louis and how the dangers of sewage effects on the community living there. The sewage is flowing and destroying making it dysfunctional making it floods the basements all over St. Louis. In order to fix the issue they need the city’s vacuum truck which helps unclog the city’s sewers, but the city cannot get those trucks because they are in financial trouble costing them $5,000 in repairs. Martin Luther King Junior High School had the issues of sewage over flowing into their kitchen in 1989. It was also the second one they had in that year. They shut down and evacuated all the students and staff because the fumes and the backed up toilets were