Equality of Educational Opportunity
...t education becomes all politic and not about knowledge. We mostly see that most of our classroom desks are old and battered. Our books are Tattered and worn out. In a better located, and more funded, school would have brand new desks and updated books. Whose schools are mostly attended by upper class students? The poor gets stuck with the second hand supplies. On my third grade class I was the only dark skinned girl in the entire room. Once a student pointed out to the teacher, who was a white female, that I was the only dark one in the class and I spoiled their orderly classroom with my presence for everyone else was white in that classroom. What was more mortifying was that my teacher didn’t make any comments on that girl’s outburst. I was shocked, humiliated and shaken out of the shell which surrounded me to believe that I was an equal to them. I really felt left out and small. A similar issue I read in hooks article stated how his experience was towards equality in education and class. He had gotten a scholarship to attend Stanford University. He went to Stanford thinking that class was mainly about materiality. It didn’t take him long to understand the real meaning of class. “Class was more than just money, that is shaped values, attitudes, social relations and the bases that informed the way knowledge would be given and received”, Hooks (p.178). Professors and students would often ask him if he was on scholarship as if it was redeeming to receiving financial aid for education. Only the upper class would think that way. So if education is supposed to be equal then why is there so much demand or harassment toward different class? It is very untrue of the statement which states that in school everyone is equal because it is a means to educate and learn to have more knowledge. According to Jonathan Kojol’s in ‘Savage Inequality”, he did a survey of the differences in wealthy and poor education system in Chicago. In it he showed that social class and race diff...