Jonathan Kozol

The introduction of the book is about the teachings of Kozol. He gives examples of the disintegrated schools that are named after people back in history, and he gives examples of Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall. The basic mobility of the Negros originates from a smaller to the group to a bigger group, however, in the present era, they are in dire efforts to move at the suburbs and at the long run they don't progress .Children are instilled with a precipitous attitude of achievement by the disintegrated schools, though in vain as the society has no confidence in the doctrine.

In chapter three Kozol dates back to a social critic Lord Action who made it across that the American parents are found of giving and allowing their children have whatever they require maximizing their competitive nature at the highest of levels. The author is sad, however. He views education and points the extreme unevenness on the distribution of resources and knowledge in general. The children emanating from poor families are consequently robbed and cheated out of a future through, underfunded, underequipped and understaffed schools in the inner cities of the United States. The children are mostly non-white and live among crime and poverty.

In chapter four, Kozol creates a micro view of the emphasis the teachers put on children to prepare them for job entries soon after graduation, which include teachers assigning Job-related tasks to learners. He gives an example of a culinary art student who was trapped despite his academic prowess. The academic promises and excellence is not always the determinant of a successful future. In chapter five, the emphasis is on standardizations and the effects of the inner city schools. Numbers are everything regarding the funding and donations in the schools. The ability to keep this door open has morphed in organizations with the subject matter being to show up the standardized tests.

After reading the book, the readers and especially students can know how to rebel and resist the status quo in their schools. The involved bodies can change the fundamental shift in the industry by reminding the governments to honor the pledges made to the schools in the inner cities of the U.S.

Kozol tells us stories about people he talks to about through in a tactical way his first love being through teaching. He tries to make the general public think of the learners as small kids, where they would demand them be handled respectfully. He uses his teaching scheme to present and speak he honest mind other than hiding behind correctness in the politics. This way he can speak and tell stories of the people in his writing in his diverse and exemplary wilt.

Jonathan Kozol is also keen on engaging his readers through the overwhelming feeling that he can create throughout the book one of sympathy, sadness, and concern. He makes the readers view the students as kids, beings that are to be taken care of, sympathized and never neglected through adding of a perspective, not of a blamer or a firebrand but a concerned individual The author is also able to engage his readers by making his arguments factual hence capturing the trust and confidence of the readers who in return can read and re-read his book. He uses both examples and statistical self-gathered figures to reinforce points.

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