Can you do what I can do? prompt 2 Kozol

Glory was recently just reconstructed from head to toe with in the past couple of years so unfortunately I have no solid information that I could gather from Infoworks.com.

As mentioned first period class is composed mainly of non white students with one or two exceptions. On my first day after period one ended, the teacher and I discussed the class structure while his next class was lining up. He told me that the first class is the lower class, and his second class was better they were the higher educated students...they also had happened to be mainly white. The first class has bi-lingual students, while the second only has English speakers. These kids divided into classes reminded me of Jonathan Kozal who claims that black and whites are still separate and still unequal. His article talks about how schools are separate, but in this case it is the class. The first class is almost non white and they require much more help and attention, is that because their family is poor? is it because they just don't understand the task given to them? whatever the reason maybe for them not learning as fast as white students it is slowly but surely eating away at the kids self esteem I would imagine.

Both classes have bright young students capable of great things in the future, and it really does make me wonder, why are the classes not integrated? is it because they are poor, and unruly? is it because skin color? I'm not entirely sure of the reason see as I am not their teacher, but it appears that Kozal may have hit a key note, segregation still in fact does exist.

The schools in Kozals article were all of very poor quality and receive almost no help from the government, where as Glory is completely new, and yet my class is still separate. The classes are treated differently when it comes to conduct and behavior. The first class is graded more on the social behavior and participation rather than the answer to the question. This however is the opposite in the white children's case.They were graded for the answers. They each get different privileges such as bathroom breaks, the first class gets none, and are not allowed to sharpen their pencils with out asking, while the second class can go to the bathroom and lockers and so on.

It seems so obvious to me that things are segregated, so obvious that they are sometimes overlooked. Theses students all have a purpose in life, and in society and should all have the same rights and privileges as any other student.