"The Treasured Places": Final thoughts
Blog post #5, Final thoughts Welcome back, readers! This week's assignment was to finish the book. So, this post will be about the book as a whole. My biggest takeaway from this book is: The American education system is corrupt, broken, and has virtually no seeable solution. Throughout the book, it has been demonstrated the layers behind the problems of Apartheid schools. Economic status, social status, race, schooling, as well as others all play a role in Apartheid schools. " Economic status and income affect where you live. Where you live affects where your kids go to school. Where your kids go to school affects the type of education they will receive. The type of education they receive affects what job they will have. The job you have affects your economic status and income." These Apartheid schools make it so the education-to-work path is the one most taken by students because it is introduced at a young age. While there's nothing wrong with this path, it does...