Summary Of Ted Talk How America's Public Schools Keep Kids In Poverty
In the TED Talk How America’s Public Schools Keep Kids in Poverty spoken by Kandice Sumner, she spoke of the unfair advantages that richer kids have over poor kids in America when it comes to the education system. She first opens up her speech by telling her audience about her children, all of which have the ability to become something wonderful, but because their “real” parents lack the money they can’t. I believe that she is correct, and that is simply because the system is faulty. I believe that the American education system relies too much on money provided, typically, by the surrounding neighborhoods in the form of property taxes. These taxes are the sole reason that schools are failing, next to an assortment of reasons as well. Property tax is, just as its name implies, taxes on people’s properties.
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The more property you own, the higher the taxes.
These taxes help fund many things, schools included. So it’s very clear to see why some schools have more funding than others. Ms. Sumner makes this topic much more clear when she said,” School funding should not be decided by property taxes or some funky economic equation where rich kids continue to benefit from state aid, while poor kids are continually having food and resources taken from their mouths.” (2017), and what she is saying here is that it’s not fair how the system of education works, that people with big homes and lots of land their kids get a better life than those with small homes and not that much land, that those kids with less benefits should not have recourse taken from them and given to the rich kids just simply because they are not well endowed with money. Ms. Sumner uses one of her childhood stories to prove how the system was
unfair.
Her story is a simple story, but carries a powerful message behind it. Her story was about how she use to take a bus and ride to and from school for an hour, how she took violin lessons while everyone around her didn’t even take music lessons, and why her neighbors were learning materials she learned two to three years ago (2017). This story shows the gap between the rich and the poor. Now, I believe that this is proof of the education system's fault, in how one girl was given a better education because of where she got it rather than everyone getting the same education no matter where they go. I personally do not believe that this is a race issue but I understand where Ms. Sumner is coming from. She was in a black neighborhood and the black children were getting a worse education, then where the white kids were getting, as proof.
In conclusion, Ms. Sumner says that the education system is keeping poor kids poor with a poor education, and I believe her because she spoke of how the school system gets their money through property tax from surrounding neighborhoods, and she even spoke of her own story of getting a better education over her neighbors. This is why I agree with Ms. Sumner and her claims that the American education system is unfair.
The more property you own, the higher the taxes.
These taxes help fund many things, schools included. So it’s very clear to see why some schools have more funding than others. Ms. Sumner makes this topic much more clear when she said,” School funding should not be decided by property taxes or some funky economic equation where rich kids continue to benefit from state aid, while poor kids are continually having food and resources taken from their mouths.” (2017), and what she is saying here is that it’s not fair how the system of education works, that people with big homes and lots of land their kids get a better life than those with small homes and not that much land, that those kids with less benefits should not have recourse taken from them and given to the rich kids just simply because they are not well endowed with money. Ms. Sumner uses one of her childhood stories to prove how the system was
unfair.
Her story is a simple story, but carries a powerful message behind it. Her story was about how she use to take a bus and ride to and from school for an hour, how she took violin lessons while everyone around her didn’t even take music lessons, and why her neighbors were learning materials she learned two to three years ago (2017). This story shows the gap between the rich and the poor. Now, I believe that this is proof of the education system's fault, in how one girl was given a better education because of where she got it rather than everyone getting the same education no matter where they go. I personally do not believe that this is a race issue but I understand where Ms. Sumner is coming from. She was in a black neighborhood and the black children were getting a worse education, then where the white kids were getting, as proof.
In conclusion, Ms. Sumner says that the education system is keeping poor kids poor with a poor education, and I believe her because she spoke of how the school system gets their money through property tax from surrounding neighborhoods, and she even spoke of her own story of getting a better education over her neighbors. This is why I agree with Ms. Sumner and her claims that the American education system is unfair.