Jonathan Kozol’s Fremont High School Schools lacking social utilities that are needed to promote the academic status of its students is an issue. Whether these utilities should be kept opened or closed is widely debated in most communities. The condition of such schools is an important issue because it determines the future of its students academically. Some issues facing schools include social‚ public and economical issues; this essay will consider arguments concerning the social‚ public and
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A Tale of Two Jonathans When I was a young child‚ my elementary school years were packed with fun times‚ learning‚ and promise. I was always discovering exciting new things‚ meeting interesting new friends‚ and enjoying being a generally happy child. My school‚ Beryl Heights Elementary‚ an accredited school‚ met or exceeded all of the standards set forth by those in power‚ and as an institute of learning‚ would teach me the skills needed to become a productive citizen. While the aforementioned
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Fremont the School of Nightmares Jonathan Kozol’s “Fremont High School” describes the tragedies of Fremont High and how the staff and students are affected. Kozol shows Fremont High School a school in LA. He explains the squalor conditions both staff and students have to put up with. He discusses everything from the student count to bathrooms all with supporting details and first-hand accounts. He presents Fremont as a failure of the highest degree for a place of education. He shows the inequality
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May March 19‚ 2015 “Fremont High School” Toulmin Analysis Education Inequality: Justice for All? In an excerpt from his book titled‚ “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America‚” Joseph Kozol illustrates a grim reality about the unequal attention given to urban and suburban schools. Through a visit to Fremont High School in the spring of 2003‚ Kozol makes the claim that schools in poverty-stricken areas seem to do worse than schools in high-class areas. Throughout
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Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools Jonathan Kozol‚ Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools is an intense expose of unjust conditions in educating America’s children. Today’s society of living conditions‚ poverty‚ income‚ desegregation and political issues have forced inadequate education to many children across the country. Kozol discusses major reasons for discrepancies in schools: disparities of property taxes‚ racism and the conflict between state
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is more difficult for the student to get help and get more of individual interaction with the teacher. Jonathan Kozol‚ who is an educator‚ compared schools from poor and upper class neighborhoods‚ in which he discovered there was a huge difference between the schools. The schools that are in poverty neighborhood had less resources to help students for their future. For example‚ according to Kozol‚ “the science labs…are 30 to 50 years outdated…The six lab stations in the room have empty holes where
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Death at an Early Age: The Review Brandon Kennedy I am reviewing Jonathan Kozol’s auto-biography‚ Death at an Early Age. This piece of literature provides the reader with an in-depth‚ personable account of schools of the 1960’s and the corruption that had flourished. Throughout this piece Kozol told of grim stories about public schools throughout Boston‚ Massachusetts; many of which would be incredibly disturbing. I believe Kozol’s thesis was the following: although legal segregation had been
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grateful. When I read Jonathan Kozol’s Fremont High School‚ this these feelings were even more reassured. Here in his writing‚ Kozol shares his experiences with students and teachers while visiting Fremont High School in Los Angeles‚ California. From the beginning‚ Kozol set the mood for the piece by describing the lackluster conditions of the buildings. He described the lack of sufficient classroom space by saying that "nearly a third of all the classrooms in the school‚ were located in portables
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attend a good school that is well operated‚ such in the way that they teach the right materials‚ and is properly funded so one can get the most out of the learning experience. Some schools may be funded differently because of their location and previous history on academics. Here in America‚ many schools are different from those from other countries. Authors such as Eleanor J. Bader‚ Jonathan Kozol‚ and Anu Partanen address issues about students and
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“Homeless on Campus” by Eleanor J. Bador‚ “Fremont High School” by Jonathan Kozol‚ and “Of the 1%‚ by the 1%‚ for the 1%” by Joseph E. Stiglitz‚ show many ways of how society forms one person’s life in a way they cannot control. America displays their citizens as equal‚ but these reports published by the authors suggest otherwise by explaining the unequal lifestyles of the high‚ middle‚ and low class of America. There
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