Choice Reading Blog 7

The article by Finn called Literacy with an attitude, investigates the concept of literacy and how it plays a role in society. The educational system is designed to educate the youth in this country. But are all youths given the same opportunity to learn? To me the answer is simple (NO). There are so many factors that go into a childs education that no two schools could possibly offer the same opportunity. There are different teachers with different ideas on how to educate in every classroom in every school in the country. That alone is enough to differ the education provided at each institution. Then you throw in resources, funding, location, surrounding area, population, time, accessability and countless more factors it becomes impossible to provided a uniform opportunity for every child. A theme I find in almost every school I have ever attended is literacy and education leads to opportunity, and how literadcy affects class and race. The concept that how educating the lower classes will affect the upper classes is an interesting one. I firmly believe that any person no matter race or class that is driven hard enough to study and work hard will eventually be given an opportunity. With that being said, it can be much more difficult for a student that has an incredible drive for success and comes from an inner-city diverse population to get the same opportunity as a student with no drive that comes from an affluent community. At times the same can be said for the oppsie side also. Sometimes opportunity boils down to luck and timing no matter race, class or ethnicity. I have been taught from a young age that knowledge is power. But how does a person turn that power into social equality? That is a question yet to be answered.