In his essay “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid,” the author, Jonathan Kozol, based his essay on the interviews and observation that he had with many of the still racially segregated schools in America and his personal thought of the situation. In the first few sections of his essay, Kozol stressed the racial problem that he observed with most of the Western schools that he visited, such as the public schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and etc, that approximately more than ninety percent of the students being enrolled in those schools are African American, Hispanic, and students of another race; furthermore, other schools named after great people, such as MLK and Thurgood Marshall, are also racially segregated schools as well. In an attempt to have a better understanding of the problem with those racially segregated …show more content…
But has instead done the opposite, because ever since the enactment of the bill in 2002, exams that must be taken by students for them to pass the class has since doubled, meaning that those already struggling to get a passing grade of “C” or higher, would have to take more than one test and get a passing score on all of them, in order to move onto the next grade, which makes things all that more stressful and complicated for those students already struggling in school. After expressing much of his anger of the broken system between the education that poor minority students receives and the education that wealthy white students receives, Kozol personally expressed that this system is, and will always exist, and that despite anyone’s race, ethics, or level of wealth, minorities have just as much right as wealthy white people does, in terms of getting an education to have a brighter