The Shame of the Nation



The Shame of the Nation

Introduction

Jonathan Kozol was the leading inspiration and advocate of the schools in the United States for over forty years. He besides being the author is widely known as an educator and the critic of the disparities of the education. He has illustrated in his books the situations and the differences which the students have to face. His book is not an assumption it is the culture which is prevailed in the society. His findings are not anticiupated, but he have actually visited the class rooms, attended different sessions and interacted with the people who were the major part of the system, especially the school management, the teachers and the students.

The struggle of the people for the civil rights and equality, and the movement and different campaigns of the student against this culture, has forced him to focus on this issue. He was highly influenced by the social and political movement and therefore he decided to work in collaboration with the school students. He began his teaching career as a fourth grade teacher, and taught and worked for ten years in multiple domains for improving and changing positively the conditions of the children (Kozol, 2005, Pp. 98-400).

Discussion

The Shame of the Nation

The book, the shame of the Nation is a key to restore the unbiased schooling system in America. It is the forceful explanation of the inequalities which are practiced in the public schools that was harming the nation. The question which Kozol have highlighted in this book, is the contradiction that continues between the public and the democratic education values and what we aim to practice as a nation.

Unequal Allocation of Funds

There was a documentary, Children in America's school, in which these contradictions and the impossibilities between the differences were unfolded. Kozol used this documentary as the base, and he focus on the local property tax which are taken for the different public and private schools. The improper allocation of these taxes and the unequal allocation of the funds in schools in the poor and prosperous economies discriminates the infrastructure and the system. He have concluded that there is the inequality of the allocations at the height, that more than $100 billion are wanted to restructure and for the better infrastructure of the schools in America (Kozol, 2005, Pp. 98-400). He further argued that today, the majority of the school children in the public schools in the large areas of the United States are the white students. The color defines how the way you are going to be served. Even after spotlighting the unequal funding, no precise measure has been taken against the building of infrastructure and the maintenance of the societies (Banton, 1996, Pp. 156-198). He identified the statistics of different schools across the North America and concluded the results to argue that racism and the wealth along with the power are the main elements by which the children are identified in the ...