I believe this is a problem not a
necessity. Yes, we need people to fill entry level jobs, given that
you must not forget that not everyone is a genius and not everyone is
poorly educated. As with anything there are many different levels of
educated people as well as their wants, not everyone is striving to
be a CEO likewise not everyone is striving to be a florist, keeping
this in mind everyone will fall into place accordingly. I believe
that if everyone was fairly and equally given education then
naturally some would preform better than others and the wants and
needs would also be different. This method is not making sure a
certain demographic fills entry level jobs, what it is doing is
taking away the option of jobs from the people and the option of
education to children of America. As the book states “Some 6,700
children enter ninth grade in these 18 schools each year. Only 300 of
these students, says Don Moore, director of Designs for Change, “both
graduate and read at or above the national average.” Those very few
who graduate and go to college rarely read well enough to handle
college-level courses. At the city’s community colleges, which
receive most of their students from Chicago’s public schools, the
non-completion rate is 97 percent. Of the 35,000 students working
toward degrees in the community colleges that serve chicago, only
1,000 annually complete the program and receive degrees.”(Jonathan
Kozol, 72) This is a crazy statistic to me, these students are
unmotivated and failing who is to say these people even want to slave
away at entry level jobs, when you look at it from this perspective
you may have a better understanding as to why young men look to drug
dealing and gangs as well as why young women look to having children
as an alternative to attempting what may seem to be impossible.
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