Poorly funded High schools lack College potential students so they are educated just enough to work at low paying jobs. The given curriculum does not provide the students to think analytically, no guidance and no realistic awareness. “The children in the group seem not just lacking in, useful information that would help them to achieve their dreams, but, in a far more drastic sense, cut off and disconnected from the outside world” (Kozol 86). These students are set up for disaster at a College or in the real world:
“The reporter looks bewildered by this answer. This teen-age girl, he says, “has no clue that $2,000 a year isn’t enough to survive anywhere in America, not even in her world.” This sad young woman, who already has a baby and is pregnant once again, lives in a truly separate universe of clouded hopes and incomplete cognition. “We are creating an entire generation of incompetents” (K 89).
They brought these people up into the city for lowly work in the past and will continue along that path to be educated for such work only. Until the educational gap in the system is completely fixed, students in theses low-income neighborhoods can anticipate to work at Mac Donald’s flipping burgers for a living.
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