Unequal Education Flaws

Education is a fundamental principle of The United States of America: a building block of this country. All American children are required to attend school beginning at a young age and continue until they reach early adulthood. In today’s society it is even stressed to the younger generation that continuing their education to a higher level is critical to their ability to be successful in the world. Current issues in the education system have become a primary social and political problem in this country. It has been a main topic of discussion for political leaders, and a main concern for U.S. citizens. Unequal access to education, violence in schools, high dropout rates, and standardized testing are just some of the weaknesses in the system
In Johnathan Kozol’s research titled Still Separate, Still Unequal: American’s Educational Apartheid it states that “the wealthiest 10 percent of U.S. school districts spend nearly 10 times more than the poorest 10 percent, and spending ratios of 3 to 1 are common within states”. This unequal distribution of funding creates a gap between the rich and the poor school systems. The rich systems get updated textbooks, library essential, technology and software which allows for a high quality education to be distributed among the students. On the opposite end of the spectrum the poorer systems can’t afford to get updated material, and certain institutions must rely on their richer counterparts to hand down their materials once they have been updated. Another resource that is limited in the lower income learning institutions are the quality of the educators. Teachers that attended a higher quality colleges or universities, and have more experience teaching are mainly employed to teach the upper middle-class students and teachers that come from lower quality colleges and have a smaller amount of experience are employed in the lower-class school systems. Education in the school system is taught through the staff of the institution and when teachers are of lower quality the students are less likely to
Music in his terms included poetry, drama, music, oratory and history and it was a necessity for the training of the soul and helped a child to grow graceful, clam and harmonious in life. Gymnastics was used to train the body and it helped to develop courage, reason and whole mindedness. Plato believed during the first stage of life (time before the age of seven) a child should not be educated in a formal matter, but rather in a basic way. A child should stay with his mother or caretaker and be educated in their company. The caretaker would tell authorized tales and stories about heroes and gods of the nation in order to develop noble character within the child. After the age of seven the early education stage would begin, which included dances, hunting, and exercises in gymnastics. At the age of ten a child will spend three years learning to read, write the poems passed down through the generations. After that period of time the child will spend the next three years learning to play the lyre and elementary mathematics until the age of seventeen. If a child is not sufficiently able to learn a certain area by the designated time they should not be pressed by the government to