Savage Inequalities

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Savage Inequalities

• By Jonathon Kozol

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Goal

• It is our goal to show how the school districts
  in a suburban area and a poorer area are not
  treated equally
• We will also show how the students were also
  affected by unequal treatment

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Objective

• PWDTAT draw conclusions on the inequalities
  between the two districts
• Give examples from personal experiences

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Anticipatory Set

• How can we as teachers make the students equal to
  the other classes?

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Kozol has visited many different school districts
of both suburban and urban areas. He found that
there was a wide difference in those districts.
The schools in the urban areas are looked towards
more as inferior towards the suburban schools and
are in a sense discriminated against. He was at a
state of disbelief when he witnessed what has
gone on in the two different districts.

• How can this be possible in all school districts?
• How can people let things drag to such a level?
• Is it possible to make things right?

• Do people even notice this happening?
• Is it too late to change what is happening?

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In his book, he discusses graphic events that
have taken place in urban districts. Poverty and
education, the cause in affect which makes them
unequal

• Horrible learning environments
• Suburban districts get more than enough
  luxuries than the urban districts (new
  computers, new text books)
• Over crowded classrooms
• Guards stationed in the lobby of the school
• Some of the parents make no demands

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Lesson Plan

• Have any of you ever had the feeling you were
  being discriminated against? Left out, or even
  alienated in the classroom?
• How do you feel about segregation and
  discrimination?
• Have you ever felt that when a class was divided
  it was to your advantage?
• Do you think your school district was or is
  unequal to others?

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• All provisions of federal, state or local law
  requiring or permitting discrimination in public
  education must yield. Earl Warren

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Activity

• Examine the quote you have just read and draw a
  conclusion to what it means and how it fits in.
• Put the class into mixed groups to share their
  opinions and conclusions
• Then let them choose who they want to be with and
  discuss their conclusions and what they have
  learned

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Observations

• How did each student work in the two different
  groups?
• Was there any division?
• Did the two different sets of groups get along or
  were there confrontations?
• Is anyone being left out or not associated with
  while in the groups?

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Feedback

• During the reflection period you can have the
  students write a journal exercise where they say
  their feelings from the lesson
• Which group did they feel worked out better? (the
  mixed or their own)
• Do they feel there was still some alienation
  towards others? And their feelings on the concept
  of alienation or discrimination

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Implications towards teaching

• Shows signs of discrimination and inequalities of
  the suburban and urban school districts which
  make you as a teacher aware of what is taking
  place
• Can make observations and try to correct the
  signs by having the students become more equal to
  the others
• Can you as a teacher figure out a way to try to
  stop the inequality among students as well as
  school districts?

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By Erin Mills and Jennifer Moyer