Lisa Jacuzzi

M. Williams

English 1A

25 September 2013

Segregation

Parents should not be forced to send their kids to a certain school because of money. Some kids live closer to the better funded schools but are not allowed to go there. The kids are sent to schools that are overpopulated and poorly funded because the parents can’t afford to send them to a better school. One student “rides the train tree hours every day in order to attend this segregated school. It would be a shorter ride to Riverdale.  There are rapid shuttle-vans that make the trip in only 20 minutes” (Kozol 111). Riverdale is a rich neighborhood in New York City. The schools in Riverdale have the best teachers in their district. This leaves no good teachers for all the other schools. If the poorly funded schools got better teachers the students could do better in school.