because they may not have the resources to help their childrenwith their education. The parents may not have the education to help a child with homework becausethey lack the knowledge. The parents also may lack the time to help their children and lose track of thechild’s involvement in school.. The lack of money can deprive the child of further educationalopportunities because the parents may not be able to provide educational resources. In Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol documents the devastating inequalities in Americanschools, focusing on public education’s “savage inequalities” between affluent districts and poordistricts. Kozal tells about the horrifying and shocking conditions of poor schools.“Almost anyone who visits in the schools of East St. Louis, even for a short time, comes awayprofoundly shaken. These are innocent children, after all. They have done nothing wrong. They havecommitted no crime. They are too young to have offended us in any way at all. One searches for someway to understand why a society as rich and, frequently, as generous as ours would leave these childrenin their penury and squalor for so long-and with so little public indignation. Is this just a strange mistakeof history? Is it unusual? Is it an American anomaly(Kozal, 1991, Life on the Mississippi)?” "Martin Luther King Junior High School," notes the Post-Dispatch in a story published in theearly spring of 1989, "was evacuated Friday afternoon after sewage flowed into the kitchen.... Thekitchen was closed and students were sent home." On Monday, the paper continues, "East St. LouisSenior High School was awash in sewage for the second time this year." The school had to be shutbecause of "fumes and backed-up toilets." Sewage flowed into the basement, through the floor, then upinto the kitchen and the students' bathrooms. The backup, we read, "occurred in the food preparationareas(Kozal, 1991, Life on the Mississippi...
