Analysis to one aspect of Kozol's "Savage Inequalities."

In Kozol's "Savage Inequalities" one of the things that really upset me was the teachers that just don't care. It is hard enough to get children to care about their education, and when they grow up in an area where there is a lot of poverty and crime, they should really focus on giving those kids the best education possible to keep their hope up. While Kozol spoke to Mrs. Hawkins, a teacher in Saint Louis, about the other teachers in that school, she said "one of these teacher usually comes in around nine-thirty. You ask her how she can expect the kids to care about their education if the teacher doesn't even come until nine-thirty. She answers you, 'it makes no difference. Kids like these aren't going anywhere.'" To me that person should not be a teacher. Teachers are supposed to be role models that do everything they can to make sure children succeed. If my daughter had even one teacher that cared the way Mrs. Hawkins did, maybe she would still be in school. Fortunately, my other daughter has found many teachers that care and is doing well in school. In my opinion, schools need to get rid of the teachers that are just there for money and keep the ones who really love to teach.