Survival of the children

                When it comes to our children’s educations there shouldn’t be a question of how we should try and help out the youth in order to succeed in school and in life. The united state government should definitely step up and do something about this situation especially when it comes to elementary school where children are barely growing and developing rapidly and that’s where they learn the basic lessons where they develop to succeed in every other course they get enrolled in school. When I was reading Savage Inequalities by Jonathon Kozol, he speaks about how the government helps students but there are preferences in the students they help the most. One of the messages that I got from this reading is that in poorly founded public schools there is greed and this greed makes the poor poorer and the rich richer. This is very true because Kozol spoke on all of the public schools that he would visit and depending on their location the government makes a better investment in that schools but if there are schools in the ghettos they still support them but give them the least amount of money because they think that since those schools are filled with blacks and Latino children they are going to achieve anything in life. Kozol says, “While some defend it as, in theory, “the survival of the fittest,” it is more accurate to call it the survival of the children of the fittest -or the most favored” (60). Kozol has a good point because the government favors those children whom they see that they will actually succeed but if you don’t give them the correct funding for schools how do they know that they won’t excel in school.  Principal Jack Foreman of Morris High school he by himself started to teach a theatre class without the help of the government because they wouldn’t give them any funding for classes or to better the schools structures. Once he started this class he had a student how had dropped out of school because he thought he wasn’t going to excel in anything, Carlos the student decided to return to school and took this theatre class and he excelled in this class he could memorize plays fast because he had a photographic memory. This are the things that the government should concentrate on the children not where they are located and judge them according to where they reside and there race because there are brilliant minds out there that are just waiting to be discovered but If you don’t give them the opportunity to do so those beautiful minds go to waste. That’s why we should change this statistics of the survival of the children because everyone deserves to survive and strive.