Savage+inequalities+work

Passages

1) P.128: "This city has 200 liquor stores and bars and 180 gambling establishments, no movie theatre, on chain supermarket, no new-car dealership, few fast food places. City blocks are filled with burnt out buildings." 2) P. 59: “Those very few who graduate and go to college rarely read well enough to handle college- level courses. At the city’s community colleges, which receive most of their students from Chicago’s public schools, the non-completion rate is 97%. Of 35,000 students working towards degrees in the community colleges that serve Chicago, only 1,000 annually complete the program and receive degrees.” 3) P.138: " I spend my final day in camden at the city's other high school, Woodrow Wilson, which also has it's difficulties in retaining students. The dropout rate is 58 percent, a number that does not include 10 to 20 percent of would be wilson students who drop out in junior high and therefore do not show up on offical figures. Of the nearly 1,400 children who attend this school, more than 800 drop out in the course of 4 years. About 200 finally graduate each year. However, on 60 of the kids the SAT's." 4) P.15: "Since October 1987, when the city's garbage pickups ceased, the backyards of residents have been employed as dump sites. In the spring of 1988 a policeman tells a visitor that 40 plastic bags of trash are waiting for the removal from the backyard of his mother's house. Public health officials were concerned the garbage will attract a plague of flies and rodents in the summer." 5) P. 40: You see a lot about the crimes committed her in East St.Louis when yo turn in the TV. DO they show the crimes committed by the government that puts black people here? Why are all the dirty business like chemicals and waste disposal here? This is a big country couldn't they find another place to poison?" 6) P.44: "Admittedly the soil cannot be de-leaded overnight, and the ruined spirits of men who camp out in the mud and shacks close to the wire fencing of Monsanto cant be instantly restored to life, nor can the illness of children suffer suddenly be sured, nor can their asthma be immediately relieved."

Questions

1. Why did the garbage pick up stop? And how was it okay for these children to be consciously aware that their small, low class world was being polluted and they couldn't do anything about it? 2. How did their education vary from the education of a student in the lower middle class? 3.Did this school system presented in S.I. not fixed because the output of smart students wasn't very good so they just let them suffer and spent the money on smarter students? 4. Should every school within a community have the same per student expenditure to provide the same education? 5. Should schools with the in ability to properly function due to lack of basic necessities remain open like the school in S.I.? 6.How much blame should administration get for the lack of functionalism of the school?