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A 3 page argument in which the writer posits that the reason many people are not satisfied with urban schools is evidently resulting from the reasons that people are not satisfied with urban areas in general. As Americans have shifted so abruptly to the suburbs, the nation's cities have been left to fall apart and so has everything in them- including their schools. And when education is poor, the remaining affluent pack up and leave the city as well; creating a cycle of cause and effect. Now that there is so little left in inner-cities, urban schools are not able to offer the attractive services that suburban schools are. Statistics and case examples are analyzed to support points made. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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capacity to support quality education programs. In Camden, New Jersey, for example, the tax base behind each student is only 10 percent of the state average (Lazear, 1993). Wealthy suburban
communities in New Jersey typically have per-pupil property tax bases that are ten times the size of those in neighboring cities. Statistically, suburban school systems almost everywhere have the
highest test scores (Tice, 1994), and this is evidently due to the significant advantage in terms of dollars spent per pupil. The reason many people
are not satisfied with urban schools is evidently resulting from the reasons that people are not satisfied with urban areas in general. As Americans have shifted so abruptly to
the suburbs, the nations cities have been left to fall apart and so has everything in them- including their schools. And when education is poor, the remaining affluent pack
up and leave the city as well; creating a cycle of cause and effect. Now that there is so little left in our countrys inner-cities, urban schools are not
able to offer the attractive services that suburban schools are. Of course, there also exists the similarly obvious problem of urban schools mimicking urban life.
Crime and delinquency often run rampant through the halls of any citys public schools just as they do through the streets. The very existence of so many more guns,
knives, and outlets for drug use and abuse in urban schools has been enough to make many parents pack up their children and leave. The lack of students and
the lack of concern from those who are there have traditionally yielded lesser funding, lower-quality teachers and markedly poorer education for urban school students. Much
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