Response to: Separation and Disparity

I think you make a great point, Cole. I’m disheartened by the effects of disproportionate funding to schools in a unified district; particularly geared towards schools susceptible to being attended by lower income students. The San Francisco Unified School district manifests the same problems you’ve observed in Chicago and has taken a tremendous toll on the caliber of public high schools in the city. I think it’s really important to pay attention to how external influences have played a role in influencing how money is spent in each district which reminds me of our class discussion last week when we talked about participation in the first dimension of power. I’m now curious about the ethicality of participating in a system upset the balance of our supposed egalitarian society to benefit one group of students while disaffecting the others.

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