School Resources- How does a child feel when he/she does not have them and why?

 

There was something I found quite interesting called “victim thinking” which according to the Savage Inequalities is a “matter of Psychology-or strategy-not reality.”(Jonathan Kozol,69) My point is that is present. When children do not have the resources (not only for school) they feel left out they may even write themselves off before even attempting a task because they don’t have the essentials needed to preform. I think not having supplies makes students feel unimportant. They go to school, go to class and their schools aren’t even prepared for them. They probably also feel as though they have better or more important things they could be doing rather than waisting time at school. I also think a lack of supplies makes them feel invaluable because if they were valued then they would most likely have all the things most schools have, like flushing toilets to say the least. “All these children see TV,”she says.”They know what suburban schools are like. Then they look around them at their school. This was a roller-rink, you know.... They don't comment on it but you see it in their eyes. They understand.”( Jonathan Kozol, 107)