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The main problem I seem to notice with the story in this book is that the poverty surrounding is what affects the children's capability to learn. One major problem with poverty in the area is that studnets don't often have the proper supply and space to work. Kozol states in his book Savage Inequalities that,"There are no science labs, no art or music teachers...There are two working bathrooms for some 700 students"(63). Without the proper material a student is very unlikely to have any type of motivation in learning. Another problem with poverty is that it makes the living conditions in the area hard to focus on school. He talks about the raw sewage and diseases being caused from the raw sewage making its way into the lives the of the people(21). This makes it very uncomfortable for the kids to get educated. If half the time the students are sick than half the time the students are unable to go to school. Another problem when poverty strikes the way of education is that there is very little funding for proper educators to teach the class. In the book a teachers says,"'I get $38,000 after nearly 30 years of teaching...If I taught at Chicago suburbs, at a wealthy high school like New Trier, for example, I'd be getting close to $60,000'"(30). When teachers make less, they don't feel they should have to do as mucb of the work. It gives the teachers, almost, right to be unmotivated.