English 1A Draft Essay

Picture this! Somewhere in the United States there is a child who is intelligent, creative, caring, and aspires to become something great in his lifetime. Only this child goes to school in one of the poorest neighborhoods around, he doesn't have a book of his own or materials to use in class because the school cannot afford it for everyone. By the time he reaches high school he will most likely read at only a third grade level and he will likely drop out of high school before he reaches his junior year. Well, at this point you may be asking yourself, "Why should I care?", "This happens to children all the time, what does it matter to me that it will likely happen to another kid?" Well... You should care, because this kid, is your kid. Only unfortunately for your kid, you died, and now without you he lives in a group home with a very low income, and is receiving a mediocre education. If only you hadn't died, you could have made sure that your child got the best education possible and became the great man he aspired to be. Isn't it a shame that there isn't a possibility for all children to have an equal opportunity in education, regardless of their families income, or whether they have their parents or not? I think that it is a terrible shame. It is not the child's fault whether his or her parents have the money to provide them with the best education possible or not, or whether they even have any parents at all to do such things for them. I believe that every single child should have an equal opportunity, from the moment they are born into this world, to get the same great education as every other child regardless of ethnicity, poverty, and parental income, because there are tons of children failing miserably in school, whose parents I'm sure wished that they could have done better for them. In this essay, i will be citing some quotes from Johnathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities Children in Americas Schools to back up some of my beliefs. Savage Inequalities is a great work by Kozol, it describes the disgusting inequalities between urban and suburban schools and is an awesome piece of literature for anyone who is interested in education. The beginning of this paper was only a prologue to the bigger picture, that equality from birth is the only way to a fair educational system. This is incredibly important to our educational system because as it stands, the children of those who are stuck in poverty stricken neighborhoods will grow up to be just as uneducated and as unsuccessful as their parents were before them, forming a family tree, that is forever rooted into poverty.