1.) American School Systems are designed to protect the wealthy and keep the poor, poor by providing a ground breaking education to those who can afford it and forcing the children in inner city schools and ghettos to attend a child care where their education is limited. This is a problem because every child deserves as much of an equal opportunity as can be provided to them. Public schools should be paid extra attention to, because it is the schools job to prepare the kids for the world. It is the schools job to know how to get these kids to college, get them grants, and teach them to apply for scholarships. Unfortunately, the way it is set up now, the parents hold the cards for their children. Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequalities, writes, “...the system rests in the initiative of the parents. The poorest parents are often the product of an inferior education, allowing for a lack of the information access and skills of navigation in an often hostile and intimidating situation to channel their children to better schools, obtain applications...” (Kozal 60). Through the years we’ve come to understand that women are just as capable of being just as great and powerful as a man. We now understand that blacks are no different from whites. What we also know is that, given the same educational start, rich children and poor children could be one large step equally set up for success. Sadly, this threat to those already in power offends their mindset of superiority. Believing they are meant to be better than everyone else, and unconcerned with the effects their segregated education will have on the future of our nations youth, we continue to fluff the ego of the trust fund babies and sacrifice millions of children to be janitors and phone survey operators when they could have been musicians or doctors. We are raised being told that we can be whatever we want, but the truth is that we can be whatever our parents can afford to turn us into. Sure, there are student loans, after school jobs, and scholarships to aid the financial foundation our parents originally have laid down for us, but even all that cannot compete with fortune 500 families with there summers in Europe and their private tutors. Wealthy kids started building their resumes the day their grandfather took over as CEO and started building connections that would lead to their child and grandchild’s future job. No one should be born into a choiceless life where the doors of opportunity are not only closed to them but are kept hidden. The wealthy, high-class child will be born with a significant advantage in that their upbringing, family connections, and social status will all be pushing them in the direction of success.
2.) American School Systems are designed to protect the wealthy and keep the poor, poor to ensure there be a working class. Those in power ignore the issue of millions of children falling through the cracks, dropping out of school and just plain failing. In the movie Waiting for Superman, a man discusses how it was his goal to get through school and start work repairing the school systems. He admitted that when he got there the system was just this unclimbable wall. No one would admit failure. When schools are labeled as “failure factories” and “black holes” how can you ignore the poor quality of education and call it acceptable? Is it because the people in charge of these public schools don’t mind watching students suffer as long as their own children are safely tucked away in their well funded, fast track to university of a private college prep school. Schools should not be set up to pluck children from their homes and label them as not worth the chance to be whatever they want to become. Who thought themselves entitled to ensure there be a working class? No matter what you do someone will always have to come in first place and someone will have to be last. What is the point in competition if we just draw straws to see who wins and who looses. If we want to be a strong country we would encourage scholastic competition. Their is only room for so many jobs, so many companies. Let heart, drive, will power, passion, and hard work earn you a place at a well paid job in your field of choice. Even those set up for success will choose to fail, but at least it is their choice. Their will still be students who do not want to work hard, who do not care for overwhelming success and are just fine with getting by. Their should be an overwhelming amount of choices. American school systems are like an ant colony. Born with a job, destined to be one thing and nothing else. The worker ants are born worker ants and the scavengers are born scavengers and thats all they know.
3.) American School Systems protect the wealthy and keep the poor, poor, however I do not think it is designed to do so. I agree it is unfortunate that some people are born into luxury and others have to scrape and save to climb their way up the ladder of society, however, it is completely possible for those with a low start to have a high ending. How did the rich and powerful become the rich and powerful? They took it. They saw a way up and they went after it. Their is more than one way to the top. Everyone is born with gifts. Some more useful than others. The world is not a fair place and it is an individuals responsibility to take control of their own life. Some people will have to work harder than others, but I truly believe that they will be better for it. The perspective that develops in the person who wore the skin off their hands and knees climbing to the top will be completely different than the person who was born into their position. What people don’t like to hear is that the world needs both understandings. We were not all meant to be the same. Yes, it would be nice if everyone was dealt the same hand of cards, but someone is always going to play their hand better than the others. If we all fell victim to our circumstances then their would be no success stories. If you want better for yourself, go find it. If you want to be a lawyer, make it happen. Too many people cry injustice and jump on welfare and expect the government to take care of them since they were cheated out of a better life because of what color they are or where they are from. Too many people give up on themselves, on their kids, and on the future. Those who will never stop fighting will be the ones who succeed. They will be one ones who earned it.
