The Inequality In America's School System

The Inequality in America's School System One of the major problems in America today is the overwhelming incidences of inequality in the schools, particularly the differences between schools in the suburbs and the urban school system. This inequality is jumping off point, if left unresolved this problem will continue to contribute to the growing strain on the economy. It will lead to an increase in the numbers of teen pregnancies, the unemployment rate, the number poverty stricken individuals, and a trend of drug or alcohol abuse in these communities. One of the reasons inequality has become so prevalent in our school systems is due to fundamental attribution error, which pretty much says that only bad people do bad, mean, or evil things …show more content…
Stereotyping is assuming that a group of people are all the same because they share race, religion, nationality and the like. Most urban neighborhoods house blacks, Hispanics, and other immigrants; since America tends to view these people as ignorant or stupid, why would they bother building a better educational curriculum to go to waste on these people who are not capable of learning anyway. This stereotyping can lead to another likely cause of inequality, the mirror image perception where people tend to see those outside of their own group as either all bad or all good. In this case those who can afford to live in the suburbs seem to assume that the individuals living in the slums don't care about education since they are uneducated themselves. Even though it is probably more likely that they live in these areas because they just don't make enough money to live elsewhere, the suburbanites don't seem to see it this way. Their reasoning allows them to not do anything to change the level of education in these schools because they can say well if they don't care why should …show more content…
One way a minority can sway a majority by showing them ways that what they want done is good for them because people by nature are always interested in how something they do will help them. We can show them how the lack of education these students are getting are hurting their pockets again as I said in the beginning, lack of education can lead to an increase in the numbers of teen pregnancies, the unemployment rate, the number poverty stricken individuals, and a trend of drug or alcohol abuse in these communities. If these numbers increase the government will need to get the money to help them from somewhere and more likely than not it will come from the taxes the educated individuals