Inequality of Education in South Carolina

Inequality of Education in South Carolina

What a world we live in poverty and funding issues with the disparities in the education of the state of South Carolina. May be due to the inequity to the tax loss of business. Also, importantly, the lower education standard because of the teacher base. Secondly, racial disparity, including inadequate school facilities, poor technical support, and updates supplies. Schools in South Carolina are inequity. Echoes of discrimination and isolation still infuse South Carolina’s education system, exposing Negro students in peril. South Carolina has never prioritized education, particularly for black children. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recently produced a documentary on the racial inequalities in training provided in public schools in South Carolina. The study shows how Negro students thrive in segregation as they strive to attain modern education (Vaden 2014).

Significantly, the black community in South Carolina, commonly referred to as the minority group, live in poverty. Therefore, such students from low-income families do not afford quality education. Consequently, they are bound to walk to and from school while their white counterparts board buses. Notably, this is because the school only hires coaches for white children and not for black students. Besides, most white students in the state prefer private institutions to avoid mixing with the Negro students. McNeal alludes that such disparities lead not only to poor performance in school but also to the widening gap of income earned (562-574). As a result, schools in South Carolina have received the name ‘Corridor of Shame’ due to their limited resources provided to facilitate learning.

Importantly, condoning segregation and education inequality is the first step to creating an independent society with educated people. In achieving the American dream, South Carolina and other states with racial segregation must collaborate to end inequality in their education systems. Overall, with equity and fairness in learning, the gap between the poor and the rich will narrow, thus creating a self-reliant society (Vaden 2014). Twenty-nine students out of fifty students feel that schools are useful learning variety. These students may feel like this because they grow up in a higher learning environment. The reason the students feel like this because not downing on the other minorities group. If you are born into poverty, how can an unstable climate provide serene space for students to build on their expertise?

Researchers have demonstrated that the social class of students is among the most indicators or predictors of their academic success. Furthermore, it is clear that performance gaps caused by social classes take precedence in the initial years of a child’s life and fail to narrow down in the subsequent years. What this means is that students who register low bar pass marks are unlikely to show performance improvements in the years that follow. In the sense of speaking that such children are unable to make up from where they lost their grounds. According to Schmidt (2012), there is a large discrepancy in performance between students raised in high social-economic status and those raised in the lowest social-economic rank. As economic inequalities continue to grow wider in societies, education performance gaps will continue to get reported among many states in the world. The situation matters to all of us, even governments, whether in developed or developing economies in the world. The gap in students’ performance is a reflection of the untapped talents and unmet needs among children in low socio-economic status. The condition is dangerous to any economy in the world because little education achievements ultimately lead to low economic prowess. Overall, the eventual result is that there will be an inter-generational transfer of social immobility due to the thriving low socio-economic status. Undoubtedly, it is clear to everyone that there is a positive correlation between social-economic inequalities and educational inequalities. The challenges posed thereof represents the highest expression of societal failure that potentially betrays the aspirations and dreams of the American child.

According to the Corridors of Shame (n.d), rural schools in the districts in South Carolina get faced by inadequate funding either by the local governments or the federal government. The schools struggle with the effects of underfunding and reduced support from the state of Carolina and the local government due to the closure of factories and diminished revenue base. Moreover, the district schools are pressed hard to provide the minimum required education levels to school children effectively. The documentary offers an extraordinary story of labor and struggle seeking adequate funding to enable the district schools in South Carolina to provide the minimal threshold for a child’s education. Although the documentary does not exclusively narrate the inequalities and inadequacies in school education in South Carolina, it offers an insightful glimpse of the problems students face daily while in schools. It calls to action the state, local, and federal governments to allocate more resources more so to the district schools so that the inequalities in education gets bridged. It is the right of every American child to get access to education, thus by cutting budgetary allocations for the district schools infringes the fundamental right to education of the students. Also, any great civilization in the world get characterized by a high elite, and knowledge plays a crucial role in achieving this subtle idea. It is in the schools where hegemonic thoughts get converted into more palatable humanistic approaches that feed and fortify societies.

It is worrying and wanting that even America, a free world, that race and racial discrimination in the education sector are typical. There have been deliberate attempts by the educational experts and community leaders getting to discuss how race and economic inequalities impact educational opportunities in America. Besides this, central to their discussion are reasons as to why in an age where routine national dialogue does not address the problems of racial inequalities and their potential impacts on education. Scholarships done by several scholars demonstrate that school readiness inequalities, whether in reading, mathematics, or behavior, have significantly declined. Noteworthy to find is that the progress made in addressing racial disparities in the academe is mainly uneven. Although Hispanic-White differentials have narrowed down, the black-white variations have indicated much less change, and the change is statistically not distinguishable from zero marks. Troubling research findings by Seth Gershenson reveals that non-black teachers show little academic expectations for black students, as opposed to the black teachers who are examining the same students (Sablich 2019). While the American is doing great in ensuring that high school completion gaps are bridged, Hispanic and black students are still unlikely to get high school diplomas compared to their white colleagues. A similar tradition gets recorded among black and Latino enrollments in post-secondary institutions than Asians and whites. Also, even though students across the groups have similar rates of admission, earning bachelor’s degrees get reported at different rates. All these case examples are the best expression of racial inequalities in the education sector, and they present the potential to impacting on it negatively. There should be good-faith guided national conversation to address these normative, institutional, and structural changes in the education sphere. Whether an individual is black, white, Latino, or from whatever race, they all matter in forging a national epic that aims at an all-inclusive society.