This video followed two young men in their schooling experience. Both live in New York City, one goes to a middle-class school, and the other a urban inner city school. Throughout the video there is a huge emphasis on the fact that there is a huge gap between middle-class and minority-rich urban schools. "Where you buy your house, you buy a school."
Urban schools have many uncertified teachers. In middle-class schools most all the teachers teach in their certified area. Also, the resources and after school activities are important in building students futures. In those schools where parents are involved have a higher rate of student success.
Free choice of parents is creating segregation. With government vouchers parents can afford to send their children to private school. But what people can afford these school, white middle-class families. No rich white family will send their children to a school with poor black kids. Federal mandates and vouchers are creating segregation. There needs to be an equitable school system. We need to see a shift from property tax funding of schools towards a different more equal source of funding.
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