Educational Equity: A Raisin In The Sun By Harper Lee

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Educational equities
Did you ever think about how diverse your school is, or maybe how segregated it is?
Educational equity, also referred to as equity in education, is a measure of achievement, fairness, and opportunity in education. Educational equity recognizes that some people may not come from affluent neighborhoods and tries to compensate for these differences to ensure that everybody can attain a fair chance in the working world. It aims to take extra measures by giving more to those who are in need. Everyone is given equity but they can do with it as they please. Lots of times education is not equal, we see this in the schools, movies and the Novels that we read. The authors want us to see the world the way they see it, usually the truth.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Walter Cunningham wants to go to school, but is unable to receive education due to his economic status. “Miss Caroline, he’s a Cunningham.” I sat back down. “What, Jean Louise?” I thought I had made things sufficiently clear. It was clear enough to the rest of us: Walter Cunningham was sitting there lying his head off. He didn’t forget his lunch, he didn’t have any. He …show more content…

When his son Travis asks for $0.50 for school. Walter’s family debates giving Travis the money, due to the poverty they live in. “Just tell me where you want to go to school and you’ll go. Just tell me, what it is you want to be – and you’ll be it….Whatever you want to be – Yessir! just name it, son… and I'll hand you the world!”( Hansberry 28). This quote in Raisin In the Sun is a good example of what goes on in our education system, when kids in poverty start to realize they aren't like the rich kids they feel that they have to help their families by working which isn't fair because it puts their education in jeopardy. In this case Travis offers to work so he can have money for

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