Summary Of Ted Talk How America's Public Schools Keep Kids In Poverty

In the TED Talk How America’s Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty spoken by Kandice Sumner, she spoke of the unfair advantages that richer kids have over poor kids in America when it comes to the education system. She first opens up her speech by telling her audience about her children, all of which have the ability to become something wonderful, but because their “real” parents lack the money they can’t. I believe that she is correct, and that is simply because the system is faulty. I believe that the American education system relies too much on money provided, typically, by the surrounding neighborhoods in the form of property taxes. These taxes are the sole reason that schools are failing, next to an assortment of reasons as well. Property tax is, just as its name implies, taxes on people’s properties.
These taxes help fund many things, schools included. So it’s very clear to see why some schools have more funding than others. Ms. Sumner makes this topic much more clear when she said,” School funding should not be decided by property taxes or some funky economic equation where rich kids continue to benefit from state aid, while poor kids are continually having food and resources taken from their mouths.” (2017), and what she is saying here is that it’s not fair how the system of education works, that people with big homes and lots of land their kids get a better life than those with small homes and not that much land, that those kids with less benefits should not have recourse taken from them and given to the rich kids just simply because they are not well endowed with money. Ms. Sumner uses one of her childhood stories to prove how the system was