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Educational Inequality

Public and Private

The United States has issues of educational inequality inside Public and private schools. Educational Inequality may include overpopulated schools, less attention to certain school zones, unequal opportunity, and lack of personal assistance(school/home). Families with the opportunity for Private schooling over public is an inequality in itself and is seen to have different affects from educational inequality.

In an attempt to avoid Inequalities and miss opportunities the enrollment in private schooling has increased. "Private schools are booming in our country. But it could well be a telltale sign of failure" in United states public school system. The "quality of education in government school is not up to the mark; there are cases where children in government schools fall surprisingly short of the expected level of reading, literacy, and numeracy after certain years of schooling." There are some cases where "good teachers have resigned and got employed in the private schools because some of them pay the teachers better", causing a downfall in government education. When the public schools overfill or are past their max capacity Parents also feel as their child isn't getting the right attention or education, causing them to enroll in private schooling and educational Inequality for those who stay.

Systemic issues in funding drives education inequality and has detrimental effects primarily on low-income Black and Brown students. These students receive lower quality of education which is reflected through less qualified teachers, not enough books, technologies and special support like counselors and disability services. The lack of access to fair, quality education creates the broader income and wealth gaps in the U.S. Black and brown students face more hurdles to going to college and will be three times more likely to experience poverty as a American with only a high school degree than an American with a college degree. Income inequality worsens the opportunity for building wealth for Black and Brown families because home and asset ownership will be more difficult to attain.

Most schools in the United States receive more than half of their public-school funding through local property taxes. Property taxes are taxes paid to the local government by individuals, corporations or any legal entity based on the value of owned property and land. Property taxes exclude low-income students from quality education because by default these students will receive far less because most of the homes in their neighborhood are rented and have lower property value.

In both public and private schooling there are countless of homes where two parents aren't present. Studies show at times where there aren't two parents it affects the student's education and assistance for the student. In 2016 there was 35% of families in public did not have 2 parents' home, and only 19% in private.

Possible Solutions

A possible solution would be "guaranteeing the same quality and duration of schooling up to the 12th grade to all." An example would be "Finland, a prosperous nation positioned 6th on the happiness map. It does not have a single private school and it has one of the finest education systems in the world today."