Social Class and Its Impact Research Paper

' Even "very bright students now come to college and even law school ill-prepared for critical thinking, rigorous reading, high-level writing, and working independently" (Goodwin 2013).

In my personal experience in Guatemala, students suffer even more extreme discrimination through the public education and private education systems. Government-run schools are substandard, compared with private schools which are attended by children of the rich. The fact that so many wealthy and influential students attend private schools takes a great deal of pressure off the public schools to perform to a high standard. This is one of the fears that many American educators have regarding the discrepancies between schools in the American system: the more unequal the resources of rich and poor schools, the more isolated students will be from wealthier areas, and the fewer parents of students from richer districts will care about the suffering of under-educated poorer children.Thanks to the discrepancies between poor and rich in Guatemala, only a very small percentage of public school graduates attend university.

Fortunately, the United States still strives to honor its ideal of equal education. However, it remains very much a 'work and progress' and a hotly-contested notion about how best to achieve that goal. Budget cuts due to the contraction of the U.S. economy are making it even more difficult for states to provide an equal education for all citizens, regardless of income, but a suffering economy makes it all the more incumbent upon America to honor its promise of providing equality for all, given that education is one of the few ways students can access social mobility.

Reference

Goodwin, Michele. (2013). Law professors see the damage done by 'No Child Left

Behind.' The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/03/12/law-professors-see-the-damage-done-by-no-child-left-behind/.....