Savage Inequalities

1. What is the significance of the title?
The significance of the title is that inequalities could bring brutality, since not much people are accepted if they are not equal to the majority; the outcome of this could be brutal, only for the fact of not being the same as others.
2. According to Jack Forman, what is the mission of the English department in Morris High School? What attempts have they made to achieve their goals?
The mission of the English department in Morris High School is to make the children understand the advanced placement readings, they were testing them and with this they’ll see how bright the kids were, but they knew that the opportunities for them to success were scarce.
3. What does Kozol want to emphasize in the episode of reading Dunbar’s poem? How does it set the tone for the rest of his essay?
What Kozol wants to emphasize is to see how bright the kids are and to see if they understand the advanced poetry that they were reading. The poems are trying to express a message and the kids do understand it, one of them says that the encaged bird sings because it wants to be free, is from the time of slavery.
4. Given their experience in Morris High School, how did the students respond to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “One day, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaves-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood”?
The students respond to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by evaluating and realizing how racism or not being equal to others could affect the way of living or affect the chance of being successful in life. One of them said that if there were white students in their school, their school will shine.
5. How does the author describe the teachers and the students in Morris High School?
The teachers and students are described as smart, but not with so many opportunities. Most of them won’t finish high school at least that’s what many teachers believed. Teachers should’ve played a mayor role but they couldn’t, it was hard for them to learn their student’s names since their classes were so overcrowded it was hard for the students to be known.
6. What were the difficulties that the teachers and the students in Morris High School were facing?
The many difficulties that the teachers and students at Morris High School had to face were very severe, the school was in a very poor condition, there was paper ripped on the wall, broken windows, when it rained water went in and the classrooms were overcrowded.
7. What are selective High Schools? Do you think they should continue to receive preference treatment in fiscal areas and faculties assignments?
Selective high Schools are schools in which the brightest students are accepted to go to, but not many know about this, for example in Morris High School there is not enough information for them to get into one of these schools, they are bright but the lack of information had a big effect on this. I don’t think there should be any preference between students, everyone has the capacity to do good and to be successful, the problem is that many are not well inform.