Give two solutions to the oppressive education (Savage Inequalities)

I guess the most obvious answer to the question is put more money into the schools that have less or near nothing but you and I both know the solution is just not as simple as that.

In direct relation to Savage Inequalities I can't think of a solution especially one that a student or teacher or even a superintendent could come up with that could cause serious action and change in the school system. A big reason I feel this way is because the problem is much bigger than just simply “oppressive education” the children and their families and their communities are living oppressed lives.

“Dr. Lillian Parks, the superintendent of the East St. Louis schools. “Gifted children,” says Dr. Parks, “are everywhere in East St. Louis, but their gifts are lost to poverty and turmoil and the damage done by knowing they are written off by their society. Many of these children have no sense of something they belong to. They have no feeling of belonging to America. Gangs provide boys, perhaps, with something to belong to....”(Kozol 41)

As stated they are “gifted children, lost to poverty and turmoil.”

I feel that to fix this issue you would obviously have to generate some amount of money to rebuild the schools and get educational materials but even if that was completed you would still have broken families and communities up against these kids. A teacher can only be responsible for what they are able to give kids during school hours afterwards kids are essentially on their own. Along with fixing schools structurally you would need to have a foundation for home life that the kids could rely on and depend on and I don’t know where the aid for that would come from. I think as of now the only solution I can come to for oppressive education is support and structure for schools and family life this would be a basis to start with.