Low achieving schools in the bay area

I don't believe that the schools in Savage Inequalities have much in common with the schools that we have in the bay area. The schools in the book had no materials from pen and paper and books all the way up to teachers and broken down campuses. All the schools in Hayward have materials to spare to the children and most of the time the students come to school prepared with their own school supplies. The children in the book weren't able to come to school with supplies at hand. In all classes in Hayward there are enough books to go around, if not at the very least students can share a book two at a time. In East St. Louis if they even have books to share the books are old by many years and do not have all the pages in the book. In Hayward there are enough teachers to go around. You would never find a classroom full of students without a teacher present. A campus in Hayward is a campus of dreams to the children in East St. Louis, who are used to sewage floating around their school and buildings falling apart. 

Schools in Hayward are given chances to improve and are given chances to earn money for schooling if they succeed in improving test scores. In the schools in Savage Inequalities, money is not giving to schools because the money "will be put to bad use," and the money goes to "more important" issues in the neighborhood. Examples of the money going to more important uses are police, hospitals, and Fire Stations. School directors believe the schools in Hayward and in all the bay area would be more successful if they had more quality teachers and more "instructional time," an option that school in Savage Inequalities do not even consider. The students are the ones to blame and are encouraged to drop out of school to make the jobs of teachers easier. Children dropping out of schools weed their own selves out. 

The one common factor that all schools do have is the failures of the students and the drop out rates of students. The lack of qualified teachers. The lack of motivation that a student has for schooling for whatever reasons.