Skar #3 Kozol


Amazing Grace

By: Jonathan Kozol



 Quotes:


“ The number 6 train from manhattan to the south bronx makes nine stops in the 18 minutes ride  between East 59th street and brooklyn ave, when you enter the train you are in the seventh richest congressional district in the nation. When you leave, you are in the poorest”

This quote stood out to me because it demonstrates the segregations between the cities of NYC, which is also related to the schools since the schools are divided by district, Kozol also mentions this “ The 600,000 people who live here and the 450,000 people who live in Washington Heights and Harlem, which are separated from the South Bronx by a narrow river, make up one of the largest racially segregated concentrations of poor people in our nation.”



“ Asthma is the most common illness among children here. Many have to struggle to take in a good deep breath.” “ The house in which these children live two thirds of which are owned by the city of new york, are often as squalid as the houses of the poorest children I have visited in rural Mississippi, but there is none of the greenness and the healing sweetness of the Mississippi countryside outside their windows, which are often barred and bolted as protection against thieves.”


Because of the effects poverty has on different types of families, children who live in poverty have a serious health disadvantage.



“Most of the addicts and prostitutes are black. Some are Hispanic. But there are all people of color. It made me feel frightened for my race. The men are killing themselves with needles and the women are laying their bodies down with anyone they meet, not knowing who they are. “


This is very relevance  to the text because take to take the easiest way and especially color people whos life can be harders living in the states could cost them to take the wrong path/




Chalkbeat New York
NYC students walk out of class, pledging weekly strikes to demand integration - Chalkbeat New York


Points to share: 

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/19th-century-care-for-poor-was-filthy-17087953.php




https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6450294/ 


Comments

  1. Ben L. Blog: FNED 246 Schooling For Social JusticeSeptember 21, 2023 at 10:14 AM

    The quotes you chose were great and covered all the main ideas of the article. I feel like the one about the segregation of race and class in NY shows how this is a problem with the system and with the systems in place to keep people in poverty.

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