Who is responsible?

In this weeks kozol reading he discuss of how two schools are run-ed in a managerial aspect. In class we determine three reasons why school chose this method. First is to teach children at young age of basic skills and knowledge to work managerial positions, its a guarantee of labor source for big corporations. The second is that teacher and and other professional perceive that working class student are not smart enough, too lazy or do not want to set their children up to failure by encouraging them set goals too high. I don't think that educator's should take the liberty to set realistic dreams or goals for their students, simply encourage the to be the best they can be. After watching the video clip of Oprah's show trading places, I thought about that hopefully Oprah is able to help this school out. Oprah and many wealthy people have the financial resources to improve the quality of education. Wealthy people ignored these issues simply because their children education is not affected by these inequalities. Addressing the needs or problems of one school is not enough because there's million of other school across the United States with the same problem. Who can we hold responsible? We have talked about the influence of such factors as race, ethnicity, social economic status, parents involvement, teacher attitudes and etc. We know that the problems consist of lack of resources, funding and poor quality or inadequate curriculum. However, who should be responsible for these problems, I think it should start with the government. The government needs re- think of methods in which they determine or allocate funding and resources, a set curriculum, re-evaluate teachers training. In addition there should be a set of regulations in which the conditions of all public schools should be assessed. The government would have more direct involve in education to guarantee equal access and quality of education to all children.