Savage Inequalities: Lower Taxes Smaller School fund

            When a property tax is low it generates less money to put back into the city. Since the surrounding environment of suffering schools is typically also suffering, the city will put the schools second to other city matters.When sewage systems are flooding the city and factories and plants are polluting the very soil children are playing in the schools take a back burner. Schools suffer with insufficient supplies for the students. They use lack current text books, books for their libraries and the science lab lacks beakers and bunson burners. The students must also suffer with uncomfortable environmental circumstances. The Lack of space in these institutions forces students to cram into classrooms that are sometimes held inside the libraries themselves or in a crowded auditorium where there are several classes going on at once, including a play where kids are singing aloud. Good teachers are also almost absent from these schools because the fresh young optimistic teachers can get paid a higher salary to teach at an adjacent school just across the river. "There are also state and federal funding sources, and we will discuss them later, but the property tax is the decisive force in shaping inequality"(Jonathan Kozol 54) The  unfortunate truth is that the future of America in these areas, are being raised in a desperate and savage way.