Appleman Activity 16

While doing activity 16 from the Appleman text I couldn't help but think about Jonathan Kozol's book, "Shame of the Nation." In this book, Kozol explains the increasingly segregated world that our public schooling system is becomming and why that is happening. Although you don't even need to put a marxist lens on to understand the arguments that he is presenting, it does help you to realize the significance of his argument. In this book the author explains how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and when the poor areas get too poor, the rich move out of the area making it more poor. In today's public school system, the kids are more segregated racially than they ever have been in American history. Understanding how social class plays a part in the creation of urban districts and schools (marxist theory) can help your understanding of this horrible phenomenon.