In Jonathan Kozol's essay, "Still Separate, Still Unequal" describes the majority of Black and Brown students who enroll in urban area school and for students of writing, they also live nearby In public school districts, if the school enrolls many black and Hispanic students, they will not choose to attend that particular school and will instead enroll in predominantly white schools. (203) Kozol also highlights the differences in educational attainment between inner-city and urban school conditions. Because of discrimination, different schools have different learning environments and different teaching resources, and worse, some particular schools even receive more government funding. You can see this when Kozol states, “There is a high school in Cleveland named after Dr. King where black students make up 97% of the student body and the graduation rate is only 35%. In Philadelphia, 98 percent of the children at a high school named after Dr. King are black. In a middle school named after Dr. King in Boston, black and Hispanic children make up 98% of the students…” (204) And so we were able to see that discrimination still exists in our country, even though the Civil Rights Movement it had already existed a long time ago. Therefore, today's school systems still treat students differently based on their skin color or race, and segregation in education between Caucasian and minority students is almost predetermined by the boundaries set for those minority students. And the main cause that determines this circumstance is still financial disparity. If first of all there is no difference between public school and private school, the great distance that has been created between two very separate educational worlds
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