School Classes that aren't the Classroom Being an ignorant all-way Private school girl, I thought Schools were the key to everything, that is, the way to "upward mobility" for low-income children. Students who were "smart" and worked hard could improve their situation and become doctors, lawyers, and CEOs. Everyone's heard some story about the poor boy studying and working non-stop as he supports his sick mother in the Bronx or rural Russia, who then moves …showed first 75 words of 503 total…

…showed last 75 words of 503 total…system itself has let down these children by failing to meet their needs. It has failed especially in the nurturing of self-esteem, and has refused to address a major cause of student failure in a middle-class school system: poverty. The best way to deal with the injustice of a class system is to eliminate poverty and create a classless, equitable, democratic society. This is the direction in which Scandinavian countries like Norway have stepped towards.