Social Inequality Models in USA

Introduction

There have been many instances in the context of America's recent history that portrays an alarming increase in cases of social inequality. The case reveals zero tolerance towards the admission of special children in charter schools. Charter schools have been unable to realize the importance of addressing the special needs of such children and thus parents of these children have no choice but to get them admitted to other costly private schools. Since special children have certain distinct needs, a great cost is involved in successfully addressing their concerns (Cole, 2013).

Economies of Scale

In the context of microeconomics, the economies of scale are the major cost advantages that organizations are known to obtain in terms of size, with cost per output decreases with the increasing scale since the fixed costs are scattered across more units of output.

The economies of scale applies to a variety of business and organizational situations as well as various levels constituting of manufacturing unit, plant or ntire enterprise. The concept of economies of scale has a ahighd egree of relevance to the charter schools since the charter schools have not been able to address the concerns of the disabled class. The charter schools do not receive appropriate funding for the purchase and development of facilities and thus are hampered to a great extent in addressing the concerns of special needs children (Smart, 2005).

The special needs children require extra attention from the charter schools. However since they are not characterized by appropriate funding, they struggle to a great extent in successfully meeting the needs of special needs children. Without an adequate physical facility and the grave difficulties in acquiring it go a long way in hampering the efforts of charter schools for addressing the needs of special children.

One issue that schools face is that the more diverse the students it provides education to the more is the cost they incur. Due to this they are unable to offer the same services as traditional institutes. One way by which they can provide the same quality services is by increasing their fees. The public system on the other hand was unable to realize the fact that diverse students need special attention; this led to a major reduction in the number of students in the 70's. It took some legislations to bring them back (Smart, 2005).



EAHCA

The EAHCA or The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was a highly substantial Act in the context of incorporating the needs of special children. This act mnade it compulsory for all public schools to accept federal funds as a means to provide equal access to education as well as providing oen free meal a day for children that were characterized with physical and mental disabilities. The act also made it compulsory for the district schools to provde administrative procedures for the parents of disabled children so that they have an appropriate and streamlined mechanism to follow in case of admitting them to public schools (Alexander & ...