Kozol Still Peperate Still Unequal

Jonathan Kozol, is an award–winning writer, public lecturer, educator, and activist; he is best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol wrote an article from “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” and illustrates a stern reality of the unequal attention given to urban and suburban schools. The legendary Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education ended segregation in public schools in America because the Court determined that separate but equal is inherently unequal. Furthermore, over a half a century after that case, Kozol shows everyone involved in the education system that public schools are still separate and, therefore, still unequal. Suburban schools, which are primarily made up of white students, are given a far superior education than urban schools, which are primarily made up of Hispanics and African Americans. In “Still Separate and Still Unequal”, Kozol, reveals to people that even though the law prohibits discrimination in public schools, several American schools are still segregated and treated differently in reality. Moreover, you can see how community influences your education because of what school you go to. In Kozol’s essay, “Still Separate, Still Unequal”, “Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now, while thousands of other schools around the country that had been integrated either voluntarily or by force of law have since rapidly resegregating”(405). In this particular line is where the basis of this article is located, the main thesis. Here I thought of discrimination in terms of gender, and race. In addition, I agreed with the viewpoint of that there is still discrimination in our country even though the Civil Rights Movement happened over forty to fifty years ago, and this is still happening today. It can be hard being a race other than white because you would be treated differently even at school. On the other hand, it