Bell Hooks's Education
bell hooks, American feminist writer and literary critic, once said, "The classroom, with all its
limitations, remains a location of possibility." Even when she wrote these words over 20 years ago
in 1994, there was a clear, unsullied idea of what a child's education should be composed
ofв”Ђpossibilities. In the time of hooks' writing, America's people were being tested on their
strength as the deindustrialization of major cities occurred, leaving most of the factory workers
without money and homeless. After Reagan left office, there was an abundance to clean up. The
country's people were trying to create possibilities that might work out. The American school system
remains about what hooks said: possibilities. Even with the media continuously...show more content...
We see constant disparities in funding within our school system between class and between race.
Because of this, we need to regulate the funding between the "good school bad school poor
school rich school" paradigm. Why aren't there already laws permitting and enforcing equal
funding? In the ruling of Rodriguez vs. San Antonio Independent School district, it was found
that even if it was completely morally ethical, laws against or for inequitable funding are not in
the constitution and therefore it cannot be ruled upon in the high court. So, even if two schools
in the same district are within a 10,000 dollars funding difference, a pupil cannot do anything
about it because it doesn't say anything about it in the constitution. States in the deep south, like
Texas and Alabama, get the least funding, says a study done by the National Law Center for
Education. The U.S. average for funding per state is $10,132 for one pupil. Tennessee's money
spent per pupil is $6,839. Also, Tennessee has one of the lowest GDPs and its education effort is
one of the lowest. Why is this? Because Tennessee still didn't take advantage of its fiscal capacity,
and that's why it received an F on the effort scale. In a study done by Education Trust, it said that
there is a 1,200 dollar gap between the districts with the most poverty and the districts with the least
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