Hebert - Connections

Hebert's article "Separate and Unequal" discusses about how it's difficult for teachers to get good results in schools that are in high-impoverished areas. Expectations in these schools are much lower levels of parent involvement and student achievement. A goal that is logical would be to have kids that come from poor ethnic backgrounds in school with middle class peers because that is a long line of evidence that shows they do better academically. In order to truly improve poor children's education, we need to take them out of the environments are are riddled with poverty.

Two articles that I connected to Hebert's article are Kristof's "Land of Limitations" and Kozol's "Amazing Grace". Kristof's article talks about how the children from the lower social classes can be the most talented person in the world but it won't matter because where they come from. It's unlikely for them to be able to break out of the constraints of their social class. I connected this article to Hebert's "Separate and Unequal" because there's a connection between since children from schools that are in high-poverty areas are limited academically in school because all the poverty and crime that surrounds them which relates to Krisof's quote from his article that states that talent is universal but opportunity isn't. They relate to each other because the kids that go to school in areas of poverty can or are talented individuals but they won't have the opportunities to make something of that talent because the social class they come from.
Kozol's article talks about the imbalance of power in our country and how bad it has gotten. Neighborhoods that are consider "ghetto" in New York are broken and run down because the city does not care to do anything about it. It talks about how people always say "if you don't like your situation, just change it" but you can't because you don't actually have the power to change it. I connected Kozol to Hebert because the children that go to schools in impoverished areas also live in the run down and broken "ghettos" that Kozol talks about. How can we expect children to learn and improve if they're stuck in poverty when they go to school? We can't expect students to be able to learn and think about their futures if they can't see a future that isn't in poverty. In order, to help them imagine a better future we need to remove them from the environment that doesn't allow them to grow.