Schools
should be well equipped to accommodate and serve the students in their
institution. If the school is not equipped to this then the students will fail.
Jonathan Kozol sates in Savage
Inequalities “Would you want to study in this room? I’m Surprise the fish
don’t die”(180). If a school is lacking the materials to teach then the
students might not even want to go to school. They will feel that going to
school will not help them succeed because they are not getting any information
and knowledge because of the missing equipment and being in a rundown school.
This happens to a lot of students because there are a lot of schools in the
country that is not getting the proper funding that they need. If this
continues then the students affected will only hate school leading them in the
end to not go attend it anymore.
Funding is a key piece in the
students’ success in learning in school. If there’s no funding to buy textbook
and resources then the teachers will have a harder time teaching the students.
Kozol “I had 45 children in my fifth grade class. The teacher sometimes didn't know you, she would ask you, ‘What’s your name?’”(128). Teachers are a major part of learning,
without them the students will not learn anything. If a teacher is struggling
in the class then they are dragging the students with them. If they can’t even
remember the students in their classes’ because of overcrowding then the
students in are suffering. The teacher can’t help every student that is failing
because there are too much of them. This why it is vital to have proportionate
classes so a teacher can be effective and helpful to the students.
Having resources is needed because
without it the students are left with nothing to study about. Poorly funded
public schools suffer low test scores because students in these schools can’t
study. Kozol writes “My mother offered to help me with my science, which was
hard for me, but I could not bring home a book”(134). A student that can’t
bring home a textbook to study from will not pass a class. They need the basic
resources such as textbooks and reference books to do better in class. Without
it they will lose more knowledge and gain nothing. This is why it is important
for schools to have materials because without it the students in the
institution are destined to fail.
