Brianna O'Donnell
ENGW 1100
October 20, 2016
Prof. Young

Quotes from the reading "Still Separate, Still Unequal"

1. "It's as if you've been put in a garage where, if they don't have room for something but aren't sure if they should throw it out, they out it there where they don't need to think of it again." 

2. "Dear Mr. Kozol, wrote the eight year old, we do not have the things you have. You have Clean things. We do not have. You have a clean bathroom. We do not have that. You have parks and we do not have parks. You have all the thing and we do not have all the thing. Can you help us?" 

3. "There are expensive children and there are cheap children, writes Marina Warner, an essayist and novelist who has written many books for children, just as there are expensive women and cheap women." 

4. "Although generically described as "school reform, most of these practices and policies are targeted primarily at poor children of color; and although most educators speak of these agenda in broad language that sounds applicable to all, it is understood that they are valued chiefly as responses to perceived catastrophe in deeply segregated and unequal-schools."

These four quotes made me agree with Jonathan Kozol's proposal that social class is directly linked to a students success. Personally I believe that children receive different educations based upon the social class that they come from as well as the race that they are.

Work Cited

Kozol, J. (2005) Still Separate, Still Unequal. Harper's Magazine 311(1864). http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/American-Apartheid-Education1sep05.htm This article was adapted from Kozol, J. (2005). The Shame of the Nation: The restoration of apartheid schooling in America. New York: Crown.